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    　　阅读理解：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．

    　　ROME (AP)－Roadways buckled under the scorching sun in Germany, water levels on the Danube and other rivers dropped and wildfires forced tourists and residents to flee Wednesday as record-breaking heat, blamed for at least 37 deaths, tormented Europe.

    　　Londoners experienced the hottest day in the city's history when the temperature hit 35.4 degrees C, beating the 35 degrees recorded in 1990．Then a British Airways Concorde was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Gander, Nfld., during a flight from London to New York to refuel.

    　　The day's high in Paris, of 39.5 degrees fell just shy of the all-time record of 40.4 degrees set in 1947.

    　　“One can safely say that this is one of the hottest summers of the last 50 years,” said Capt. Alessandro Fuccello, of the Italian air force's meteorology office. He was speaking about Italy, but the heat wave was the hottest in recent memory in much of Europe.

    　　Air conditioning is uncommon in much of northern Europe because it doesn't usually get so hot and it's discouraged in the south, where temperatures are often warmer, with high energy costs.

    　　Exhausted firefighters were battling Portugal's worst wildfires in recent memory. The discovery of two bodies in a burned forest 300 kilometres northeast of Lisbon brought the death toll in that country to at least 14.

    　　Two people in southern Spain died of heat stroke, raising the death toll to 14 in the heat wave stifling much of the country. Among the deaths was a firefighter who had a heart attack Tuesday after battling a blaze.

    　　Forest fires fanned by hot winds near the French Riviera last week killed four people, and a fifth person died in Corsica when he tried to put out a fire near his home.

    　　Belgium's Royal Meteorological Institute predicted it could reach 40 degrees Thursday－the highest temperature it has ever forecast since its founding in 1833-and several rivers were declared off-limits to kayakers because of low water levels.

    1．Some parts of ________ have broken their heat records so far this year.

    [　　]

    A．Britain and Germany
    B．France and Britain
    C．Italy and Britain
    D．Belgium and Portugal

    2．It can be inferred from the report that________.

    [　　]

    A．people in southern Europe are happy to use air-conditioning

    B．the hotter it is, the more petrol will be needed by a plane

    C．more deaths were caused by forest fires than by heat in Europe

    D．forest fires will come about when there are hot winds

    3．As far as the places mentioned in the passage are concerned, people would prefer to go to ________ to spend this summer.

    [　　]

    A．Paris
    B．Belgium
    C．London
    D．Germany

    4．Which of the following might be the best title for the report?

    [　　]

    A．Europe: wildfires caused by heat

    B．Europe: swept by unusual heat waves

    C．Europe: deaths caused by heat

    D．Europe: suffering the hottest summer

    5．The meaning of the underlined word “predicted” (the last paragraph) is close to that of ________.

    [　　]

    A．discovered
    B．thought
    C．doubted
    D．warned

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    　　OBERLIN, Kansas(AP)-A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was much slower than Christmas．It has just arrived in northwest Kansas recently．

    　　The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska．

    　　“It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century,”Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said．

    　　“It’s surprising that it never got thrown away,”he said．“How someone has found it, I don’t know．”

    　　Ethel Martin has passed away, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative．That’s how the 94-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel’s, sister-in-law．She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois．

    　　“That’s all we know,”she said．“But it is kind of curious．We’d like to know how it got down there．”

    　　“The card was placed inside another envelope with a modern postage stamp for the trip to Oberlin-the one cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn’t have covered it,”Martin said．

    　　“We don’t know much about it,”she said．“But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape．”

    (1)

    ________ was supposed to have received the postcard．

    [　　]

    A．

    Bernice Martin．

    B．

    Ethel Martin．

    C．

    Santa C1aus．

    D．

    Steve Sehultz．

    (2)

    What seems quite mysterious is that ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    how it was sent to a relative

    B．

    the postcard was still in shape

    C．

    where the old postcard was kept

    D．

    the card was in a modern envelope

    (3)

    The underlined part“the 94-year-old relic”refers to ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    the Christmas card．

    B．

    an ancient cultural relic in Illinois．

    C．

    an envelope with modern postage．

    D．

    a house passed down by Ethel Martin．

    (4)

    The best title of the passage would be ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    A Special Christmas Card

    B．

    Too Late Christmas Greetings

    C．

    The Story of a Christmas Card

    D．

    A Christmas Card Arrives Almost a Century Late

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    Read the following three passages．Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read．

    Llosa's Nobel Prize Settles an Old Score

    　　Mario Vargas Llosa, 74, received a phone call early in the morning on October 7 when he was preparing to set out on a walk through Central Park in New York．He was informed that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature．

    　　Initially, however, he thought it was a joke．It was because, as the Peruvian told the BBC, “a writer shouldn't think about the Nobel Prize as it is bad for one's writing”．

    　　He told AP that the honor would not affect him．“I don't think the Nobel Prize will change my writing, my style, my themes,” he said．“(But)it's a good way to start a New York Day．”

    　　Vargas Llosa is one of the most celebrated writers of the Spanish-speaking world．He has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including The Breen House and The War of the End of the World．Both of these are available in Chinese translation．His work “vividly examines the dangers of power and corruption in Latin America”, according to The NEW York Times．

    　　Vargas Llosa realized that he wanted to be a writer when he was a child, after reading an adventure novel by Jules Verne．At 15, he was a crime reporter．He later lived in exile in many European countries．

    　　In 1990, he ran for the presidency in Peru, but lost badly．On October 7 Vargas Llosa told Reuters that he had never wanted to be a politician but felt it was an obligation for a writer to participate in public debate．”

    　　He is frequently mentioned with Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of the classic work A Hundred Years of Solitude．Garcia Marquez won the literature Nobel in 1982, the last South American to do so．

    　　Their relationship has involved one of greatest feuds(不和)in literary history．In a famous 1976 incident at a theater in Mexico City, Vargas Llosa punched Marguea, leaving him with a black eye．The two have reportedly not spoken in decades．

    　　After the Nobel announcement, Garcia MARQUEZ wrote “now we're even” in Spanish on his microblog．

    (1)

    What did Mario Vargas Llosa think was a joke at first?

    [　　]

    A．

    Winning the Nobel Prize for literature

    B．

    Thinking the Nobel Prize is bad for one's writing

    C．

    What the Peruvian told the BBC

    D．

    What a writer should think about the Nobel Prize

    (2)

    For Llosa, winning the Nobel Prize will ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    change his writing, his style and his themes

    B．

    start his life in New York

    C．

    realize his childhood dream

    D．

    have little effect on him

    (3)

    Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    Llosa is one of the most celebrated writers of the world．

    B．

    Many of his works are available in Chinese translations．

    C．

    He ran for the presidency in Peru, but didn't win the election．

    D．

    He thought it a duty for a writer to run for the presidency．

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    In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh(法老）treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off.

    Shades of that spirit spread over today's conversations. Once a friend arid I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked light heartedly out the door ，picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, “Oh boy, bad

    day for a picnic. The weatherman says it’s going to rain. ,，I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report, for his smile.

    Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Grey hound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile，“Oh that bus left five minutes ago. ” Dreams of head-cutting!

    It’s not the news that makes someone angry. It’s the unsympathetic attitude with which it’s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning profes?sionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn’t get the job takes on a sym?pathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feel?ing of the receiver.

    Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you7 re tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn’t ready yet? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.

    Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, 1 would have ap?preciated his warming . Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, “Oh, that’s all right I'll catch the next one. ” Big winners, when they bear bad news，deliver bombs with the emotion the hombarded(被轰炸的）person is sure to have.

    67. In Paragraph l ，the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to _______

    A. make a comparison　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B introduce a topic

    C. describe a scene　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. offer an argument

    68. In the writer’s opinion, his neighbor was_______.

    A. friendly　　　　　　　　 B. warm-hearted　　　　　　　　　　 C not considerate D. not helpful

    69. From “Dreams of head-cutting！"(Paragraph 3) ,we learn that the writer_______.

    A　 was mad at the sales agent

    B. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh

    C. wished that the sales agent would have had dreams

    D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent’s head that night.

    70. What is the main idea of the text?

    A　 Delivering bad news properly is important in communication.

    B. Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.

    C. Receiving bad news requires great courage.

    D. Learning ancient traditions can be useful.

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    　　It’s not only rocket scientists and journalists who are following the course of“Shenzhou V”,or“Divine ship/vessel V”．There are also lexicographers, or dictionary compilers．The flight of the Spacecraft last week might help put some new words into orbit．

    　　One of them is a western media coinage used to refer to the Chinese astronauts．It’s a combination of the Chinese pinyin“taikong”, meaning space, and the English“astronaut”, from classical Greek：“star sailor/navigator”, for people who was going into space as a career．

    　　In the Reuters and AP reports of October 15,“taikonaut”was used as a proper noun．For example：

    　　The long March 2F rocket carrying“taikonaut”Yang Liwei lifted off into a clear blue sky over the Gobi desert at 9 am and entered its orbit 10 minutes later．

    　　A Long March 2F rocket called the Shemhou V－“divine ship”in Chinese－carried a single“taikonaut”named Yang Liwei, 38, following Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard in 1961．

    　　The word“taikonaut”is not a newly coined term．It first emerged in November, 1999, when China launched its first unmanned“Shenzhou I”spacecraft．

    　　At that lime, some English news media predicted that China would soon launch a manned space flight and created the word“taikonaut”for the Chinese astronauts．It was then borrowed by the Germans media．

    　　But it was left out of mainstream dictionaries, such as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Cambridge Advanced English Learner’s Dictionary．

    　　However, the launch of the“Shenzhou V”will most likely help boost its status since there is already a word referring specifically to Russian astronauts in the dictionary entry．

    　　An astronaut of Russian(or the former Soviet Union)is called a“cosmonaut”, from the Russian“kosmonaut”．The word was derived from classical Greek：“kosmonaut”(universal)and“nautes”．One might argue that“cosmonaut”is a Russian variation on the earlier word“astronaut”．

    　　On March 14,1995, US astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, arguably making him the first American cosmonaut．

    　　And if this trend of coinage continues, more English variations for astronaut will appear as more countries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space, what would Western journalists call an astronaut from India or Africa?We’ll have to wait to see．

    (1)

    Which of the following best suits the passage as a title?

    [　　]

    A．

    Why to Create the Word“Astronaut”?

    B．

    Why to Make a Lot of Variations for“Taikonaut”?

    C．

    How to Tell a“Taikonaut”from an Astronaut?

    D．

    How to Call Astronauts from Different Countries?

    (2)

    Which is the right statement in the following sentence?

    [　　]

    A．

    The word“taikonaut”was born with the launch of“Shenzhou V”spacecraft．

    B．

    Yang Liwei, Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard are all excellent taikonauts．

    C．

    The American newspapers such as Reuters coined the word“taikonaut”．

    D．

    Some new words have widely been put into use with the launch of the“Shenzhou V”spacecraft．

    (3)

    From the writer’s point of view, ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    lexicographers or dictionary compilers have also done a lot of things to help launch“Shenzhou V”

    B．

    the American astronaut Norman Thagard is not a cosmonaut

    C．

    the words coined or to be coined for astronauts of different countries usually have something to do with the name(s)of their countries

    D．

    the reason why there will be more variations for the word astronauts is that more and more countries will be able to send their own astronauts into space

    (4)

    What does the underlined word“coinage”mean in the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    System of coins in use．

    B．

    Invention of word．

    C．

    New meaning of a word．

    D．

    Discovery of an old word．

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