阅读理解。 There was once a captain who loved money so much that he cheated his

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阅读理解。      There was once a captain who loved money so much that he cheated his sailors at the end of every
voyage and took their wages.
      On the last day of one voyage, the ship was in a small port. It was winter time, and the sea was very
cold, so the captain said to his sailors, "If one of you stays in the water during the whole night, I will give
him my ship. But if he comes out before the sun appears, I shall get his wages."
      The sailors had heard about the captain"s cheating, so they didn"t trust him. But then one of them, who
thought that he was cleverer than the captain, said that he would do it. He got into the water, and, though
it was very cold, he stayed in it. When it was nearly morning, some fishermen lit a fire on the shore about
half a mile away.
       "You are cheating," the captain said to the sailor. "The fire"s warming you."
       "But it"s half a mile away!" said the sailor.
       "A fire"s fire," answered the captain. "I have won."
       The sailor came out of the water, and said, "Perhaps you think that you are clever because you have
won my wages, but you can"t cook a chicken."
       "I can," answered the captain.
      "If you cook this chicken," said the sailor, "I shall work for you without wages for seven years, but
if you can"t, you will give me your ship."
       The captain agreed, took the chicken and said, "Where"s the fire?"
       "There it is," answered the sailor. "On the shore."
       "But it"s half a mile away," said the captain angrily.
       " "A fire"s fire," you said," answered the sailor. "If it is enough to warm me in the water, it is enough
to cook your chicken." 1. The captain got the sailors" wages _____. [     ]
A. to buy a chicken for himself
B. and kept the money for future use
C. by cheating him
D. and said he would return the money soon 2. Which of the following statements is TRUE? [     ]
A. All the sailors refused to get into the water because it was too cold.
B. The captain knew that the fire the fishermen made was enough to warm the sailor in the water.
C. The captain succeeded in cheating the sailor.
D. It was the sailor who was cleverer. 3. The captain insisted that the fire was warming the sailor because he _____. [     ]
A. didn"t want to lose the bet
B. didn"t believe the sailor"s success
C. wanted to keep his promise
D. wanted to show his cleverness 4. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?[     ]
A. The sailors didn"t trust the captain.
B. In order to help the sailor in the water, the fishermen made a fire.
C. The captain failed to cheat the sailor this time.
D. The sailor didn"t get out of the water before the sun appeared. 5. What is the title of the story? [     ]
A. How a Captain Cheated His Sailor
B. How a Sailor Got a Ship
C. A Brave Sailor
D. A Fire Is Fire

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1-5: CDABD

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阅读理解。       Last year when Tom graduated from school, he came to Taibei. He didn"t like to work on his father"s
farm and hoped to find a job in a big city. He went from one company to another but no one wanted him.
With little money left, he got to the station, sad and tired. All he wanted to do was go back to his small town.
It was very late at night and the station was full of people. They were waiting to buy tickets of the last train.
He bought the last ticket, and he was very happy.
      At that time, a woman with a crying baby walked to him and asked him to sell her the ticket. He gave
her the ticket because he thought they needed it more than he did. After the train left, he sat on the bench
and didn"t know where to go. Suddenly, an old man came and said, "Young man, I have seen what you did
to the woman. I am the owner of a big company. I need a good young man like you. Would you like to
work for me?"
1. Tom came to the station to _____. [     ]
A. find a job
B. take the train home
C. sell the ticket
D. take the train to Taibei 2. The woman walked to Tom because _____. [     ]
A. she was Tom"s old friend
B. her child wanted to talk to Tom
C. she needed to take the train
D. she had no money to buy a ticket 3. Tom didn"t take the train because _____. [     ]
A. he didn"t take a train ticket
B. he missed the train
C. he wanted to talk to the old man
D. he gave his ticket to the woman 4. The old man wanted to _____. [     ]
A. lend Tom some money
B. give Tom a job
C. say "Thank you" to Tom
D. sit on the bench with Tom 5. What can we learn from this story? [     ]

A. Many people find job in a train station.
B. Don"t buy the last ticket of the train.
C. If we try our best to help others, others will help us.
D. We should not give our ticket to others in a train station.

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阅读理解。      Mr. and Mrs. Jones"s flat was full of suitcases, trunks (大衣箱) and packed-up furniture (家具). The
two of them were busy with pencils and paper, checking their lists of luggage (行李), when there was a ring
at the door. Mrs. Jones went to open it, and saw a well-dressed middle-aged lady outside. The lady came to
welcome them to their new home.
      The Joneses invited her in, after apologizing for the state of the flat.
       "Oh, please don"t stand on ceremony (典礼)with me," she answered. "Do you know, in some parts of
this town neighbors are not at all friendly. There are some streets, and even some blocks of flats, where
people don"t know their neighbors, not even their next-door ones. But in this block of flats, everybody is
friends with everybody else. We are one big, happy family. I am sure that you will be very happy here."
      The well-dressed lady got a shock when she came to visit the flat the next time, because she found a
quite different man and woman in it. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had not had the courage to tell her that they were
not the new owners of the flat, who were going to move in the next day, but the old owners who had lived
beside her for two years without her ever having visited them or even noticed their existence. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Jones"s flat was full of suitcases and other packed-up things _____. [     ]
A. because they received a lot of things
B. because they were going to post them
C. because they bought a lot of things
D. because they were going to move out 2. When there was a ring at the door, the Joneses _____. [     ]
A. were talking to a well-dressed lady
B. were checking their list of luggage
C. were writing a letter
D. were packing up their furniture 3. The well-dressed lady thought that Mr. and Mrs. Jones were _____. [     ]
A. her old neighbors
B. her friends
C. the new owners of the flat
D. members of her family 4. What did the lady think of the people in that block of flats? [     ]
A. She thought that everybody was friends with everybody else.
B. She thought that people didn"t know their neighbors.
C. She thought that neighbors didn"t know their neighbors.
D. She thought that people only knew their next-door ones. 5. Why did the lady get a shock when she came to visit the flat the next time? [     ]
A. Because she found that Mr. and Mrs. Jones were her new neighbors.
B. Because the Joneses still stayed there.
C. Because the Joneses told her that they were going to leave from there.
D. Because she found a quite different man and woman in the flat.

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阅读理解。      Alice always wanted to be a singer. Music was the most important thing in her life. To tell you the truth,
she took lessons for years, and practiced every day, but her voice didn"t improve. In fact, it didn"t get better;
it just got louder.
      Her teacher gave up in the end and stopped the lessons, but Alice refused to give in. One day she decided
to give a concert and invited her teacher to attend.
      The teacher was very worried about what to say after the concert. She knew it would be terrible and it
was. She didn"t want to tell a lie, but she didn"t want to hurt Alice"s feelings, either. At last, she got an idea
and went backstage to greet her student.
       "Well," said Alice, "what did you think of my singing?"
       "My dear," said the teacher, "you"ll never be better than you were tonight." 1. Alice wanted to be a singer because she _____. [     ]
A. was good at singing
B. could do nothing but sing
C. had a good teacher
D. was most interested in music 2. Alice"s teacher stopped the lessons because _____. [     ]
A. Alice didn"t make any improvement in singing
B. Alice had taken lessons for years
C. Alice didn"t work hard enough
D. Alice was so proud and wouldn"t listen to her 3. What did the teacher really mean by saying "You"ll never be better than you were tonight."? [     ]
A. You gave a wonderful concert tonight.
B. You won"t make any improvement in future.
C. You have never sung so well before.
D. You did much better before than tonight.

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阅读理解。     After filling the car with gas, I continued driving to the airport. The roads were quite bumpy (颠簸) and I
noticed that the highway department was doing some reconstruction, although some parts of the road hadn"t
been completed yet. I drove on a completed part of the highway that was flat and smooth for one and a half
hours. Afterwards, the road became a little rough and bumpy again, and there weren"t even any street lights
on the side of the road. We started driving in the early hours of the morning and I think because it was really
early and drivers on the road were tired so they couldn"t concentrate (集中注意力). I saw three separate car
accidents during the journey.
     When starting driving in an area that I didn"t know well, I let the other car lead the way and I followed
behind them. As we were driving inside a tunnel, I suddenly saw a truck hit the side of the wall, rebound (反
弹), then turned back onto the middle of the road. The truck nearly hit the car in front of us. I think the driver
of the truck must have fallen asleep at the wheel otherwise this wouldn"t have happened. He nearly caused a
car accident.
     I was driving behind the cars and I saw everything happen in front of me. The incident gave me such a
fright that it immediately woke me up. In my mind I kept telling myself that I was driving a car and that I had
to stay alert (清醒). To my relief, all the members in the other car were okay because if that truck really did
hit the car traveling in front of us, I don"t think I"d be able to make it back to Hong Kong. Not only that, all the
passengers in the other car would have to go to hospital. 1. From the first paragraph we know the road _____.[     ]
A. was bumpy all the way to the airport
B. was blocked by three car accidents
C. was bright because of the street lights
D. was being repaired 2. There were car accidents during the writer"s journey mainly because _____. [     ]
A. the traffic was heavy in the morning
B. there were no street lights
C. sleepy drivers couldn"t fix their attention
D. the road was very bumpy 3. What can we know from the passage? [     ]
A. An accident happened inside the tunnel.
B. The truck driver may have fallen asleep when driving.
C. The writer"s car was almost hit by the truck.
D. All the passengers in the other car were sent to the hospital. 4. When the incident happened, the writer was _____. [     ]
A. sleepy
B. asleep
C. wide awake
D. attentive

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完型填空。     A doctor was once teaching a class of medical students at a famous   1   in London. An injured man
was   2   in, and the doctor turned to   3   of the students and asked him, "What is   4 with the man?"
     "I don"t know, sir," the student answered. "Shall I examine him and   5   out?" "There is no   6   to
examine him," said the doctor. "You should know without asking questions. He has   7   his right knee.
Don"t you notice the way he walked? He hurt it by   8   it in the fire. You see his   9   are burnt away at
the  10 .This is Monday morning. Yesterday was  11 , but on Saturday the roads were  12  and muddy.
The man"s trousers are muddy  13 .The man fell down on Saturday  14 ."
     The doctor then turned to the man and said, "You  15  your wages (周薪, 工资) on Saturday and
went to a  16  house and drank too much. You  17  wet and muddy on the way  18 .You tried to dry
your clothes  19  the fire when you got home.  20  you had drunk too much, you fell on the fire and
burnt your knee. Is that right?"
     "Yes, sir," said the man.

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