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阅读理解.    People in the United States honor their parents with 2 special days: Mother"s Day on the
second Sunday in May and Father"s Day on the 3rd Sunday in June. These days are to show
love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens.
They give love and care. These two days offer an opportunity to think about the changing roles
of mothers and fathers. More mothers now work outside the home and more fathers must help
with childcare.
     These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On mother"s Day, people
wear carnations. A red one symbolizes a living mother. A white one shows that the mother is
dead. Many people attend religious services to honor parents. It"s also a day when people whose
parents are dead visit the cemetery(grave). On these days families get together at home as well
as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecue for Father"s Day. These are days of fun and
good feelings and memories.
     Another tradition is to give cards and gifts. Children make them in school. Many people make
their own presents. These are more valued than those bought in stores. It"s not the value of the
gift that is important, but "the thought that counts". Greeting card stores, florists, candy makers,
bakers, phone companies and other stores do lots of business during these holidays.1.Which is NOT a reason for children to show love and respect for parents?_____A. Parents bring up children.
B. Parents give love and care to children.
C. Parents educate children to be good persons.
D. Parents pass away before children grow up.2.What do you know from the passage?_____A. Both festivals are in May.
B. Fewer women worked outside the home in the past.
C. Not all the children respect their parents.
D. Fathers are not as important as mothers at home.3.Which do you know about "carnation"?______A. It only has two kinds of color.
B. It refers to the special clothes people wear on Mother"s Day.
C. It"s a kind of flower showing love and best wishes.
D. People can wear them only on the second Sunday in May.4.On Mother"s Day and Father"s Day _____.A. people sometimes have family parties B. everyone goes to the cemetery
C. children always go to parents" home D. hand-made cards are the most valuable gifts.5.What do you think "florists" do ?______A. They sell flowers.
B. They make bread or pastry.
C. They offer enough room for having family parties.
D. They sell special clothes for Mother"s Day and Father"s Day.

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完形填空。     People often say that the Englishman"s home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important
and   1 . Most people in Britain live in houses   2 flats, and many people own their homes. This means
that they can make them individual; they can    3 them and change them in any way they   4 . In a
crowded city the individual knows that he or she has a private space which is   5 for himself of herself and for   6 friends.
     People usually like to   7 their space. Are you sitting now in your home or in a library or on a beach or a train? If you are on the beach you may have spread your    8 around you; on the train you may have
9 your coat or small bag on the seat beside you; in a library you may have one   10 or chair which is
your own. Once I was traveling on a    11 to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a
table between us. The man on the    12 side to me had his briefcase on the table. There was no    13 on my side of the table at all. I was made rather    14 , I thought he thought that he owned the    15 table. I
took various papers out of my bag and put them on    16 ! When I did this he stiffened and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. I had   17 his space! A few minutes later I took my papers   18 his case in
order to read them. He immediately   19 his case to his side of the table.
(Of course , it is   20 that he just wanted to be helped to me! )(     )1. A. helpful
(     )2. A. rather than
(     )3. A. buy
(     )4. A. make
(     )5. A. only
(     )6. A. unwanted
(     )7. A. mark
(     )8. A. towels
(     )9. A. find
(     )10. A. book
(     )11. A. plane
(     )12. A. opposite
(     )13. A. matter
(     )14. A. angry
(     )15. A. right
(     )16. A. the table
(     )17. A. invaded
(     )18. A. into
(     )19. A. hid
(     )20. A. possible   B. personal
B. as well as
B. leave
B. clear
B. already
B. close
B. decide
B. sands
B. give
B. corner
B. train
B. back
B. weight
B. hurt
B. only
B. his case
B. shut
B. for
B. set
B. true       C. necessary
C. as a result of
C. paint
C. like
C. ever
C. sick
C. choose
C. papers
C. put
C. companion
C. way
C. wrong
C. light
C. fearful
C. small
C. the seat
C. separated
C. off
C. moved
C. wonderful        D. useful
D. or rather
D. offer
D. prepare
D. even
D. invited
D. keep
D. flags
D. store
D. meal
D. street
D. good
D. space
D. busy
D. whole
D. his side
D. shared
D. out of
D. kept
D. ordinary

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阅读理解. Britain almost more than any other country in the world must seriously face the
problem of building upwards, that is to say of accommodating(居住) a considerable
proportion of its population in high blocks of flats. It is said that the Englishman
objects to this type of existence, but if the case is such, he does in fact differ from
the inhabitants of most countries of the world today. In the past our own blocks or
flats have been associated with(把……同……联系起来) the lower-income groups
and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot
water supply, electrically operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as
such details, important notwithstanding(然而), as easy facilities for disposal(处理)
of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages on the ground floor,
playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washing.
It is likely that the dispute regarding flats versus individual houses will continue to
rage(风行) on for a long time as far as Britain is concerned, and it is unfortunate
that there should be hot feelings on both sides whenever this subject is raised. Those
who oppose the building of flats base their case primarily on the assumption that
everyone prefers individual home and garden and on the high cost per unit of
accommodation. The latter ignores the higher cost of providing full services to a
scattered(分散)community and the cost in both money and time of the journey to
work for the suburban resident.1. We can infer from the passage that ____.A. English people, differently from most people in other countries, dislike
living in flats
B. people in most countries of the world today are not opposed to living in flats
C. people in Britain are forced to move into high blocks of flats
D. modern flats still fail to provide the necessary facilities for living2. What is said about the blocks of flats built in the past in Britain?_____A. They were mostly inhabited by people who did not earn much.
B. They were usually not large enough to accommodate big families.
C. They were sold to people before necessary facilities were installed.
D. They provided playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings.3. Some people oppose the building of flats because ____.A. this living expenses for each individual family are higher
B. it involves higher cost compared with the building of houses
C. they believe that people like to live in houses with gardens
D. the disposal of rubbish remains a problem for those who lives in flats4. The author mentions that people who live in suburban houses ____.A. do not have access to easy facilities because they live away from the city
B. have to pay a lot of money to employ people to do service work
C. take longer time to know each other because they are a scattered community
D. have to spend money and time going to work every day

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Hannibal was a general from Carthage, a city on the northern coast of Africa.
He thought the ancient Romans and won great battles at a time when the Romans
were the most powerful people in the world. His army was small, but it was made
up of soldiers from many countries that didn"t want to be ruled by the Romans.
before Hannibal could fight the Romans always had thought would protect them
from enemy armies. When winter came, the Romans did not think Hannibal could
possibly cross the mountains. Hannibal surprised them. With some of his soldiers
riding huge strong elephants-where no elephants had to walk slowly without resting
through the mountain snow-storms and howling(怒号)winds. The enemies rolled rocks
down to try to stop them. Even raging rivers couldn"t stop them. Hannibal"s soldiers
built rafts(木排)strong enough to carry the elephants across. At last, half of them
never reached the end of their journey. But the other half of the army and some
of the elephants did finish the journey.

1. From the passage, Hannibal might live in ____.A. Algeria
B. Italy
C. Turkey
D. Iraq2. Hannibal knew that he ____A. must have a powerful army to beat the Romans
B. must cross the Alps to win the battle
C. was sure to beat the Romans before crossing the Alps
D. had to break away from the Romans to cross the Alps3. Which of the following is not true?_____A. Before Hannibal"s army crossed the Alps, the Romans were the most powerful
people in the world.
B. The Romans thought it impossible for Hannibal to cross the Alps.
C. Hannibal used the elephant to help cross the Alps because the elephants were
good at walking on mountain paths.
D. Hannibal managed to cross the Alps after all with his army.4. After reading this passage, we can easily remember a saying____.A. Where there"s a will, there"s a way
B. Strike while the iron is still hot
C. He who doesn"t reach the Great Wall is not a true man
D. Failure is the mother of success

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阅读理解.     Since the beginning of human evolution(进化), men have migrated(迁移)across continents
in search of food, shelter, safety, and comfortable weather. People still move for these reasons,
but new reasons for human migration are arising, such as job relocation(重新安置) and
overpopulation.
     Three million migrants are moving from poor countries to wealthier ones each year, and
increasingly, their destination is a neighboring country in developing parts of the world. People
are moving within the developing world for the same reasons as they migrate to wealthier nations.
People from poor countries are going to less poor countries, fleeing wars and conflicts(冲突).
They are also responding to population pressures because some countries are densely
populated(人口密集), and they often have high population growth. Those people need to
go somewhere else.
     There are three main reasons why people move. The basic categories and percentages
are as follows, according to the Current Population Surveys (CPS):
     Family-related reasons account for 26.3%, including changes in marital status(婚姻情形),
establishing a household and other family reasons; work-related reasons 16.2%, including job
transfer, retirement, and other job-related reasons; housing-related reasons 51.6%, including
new and better houses, better neighborhood, cheaper housing and other housing reasons;
the remaining 5.9% of other reasons are attending college, the change of climate and health
reasons.
     Americans have been migrating south and west for decades in search of better job
opportunities and warmer climates. They have also been moving to places a little far from
cities, in search of bigger yards and houses, lower crime rates and better schools. In 1950,
nearly a fifth of the population lived in the nation"s 20 largest cities. In 2006, it was about one
in ten. That"s why many American people say, "Big Cities Shrink as People Move South, West."
     Between March 2005 and March 2007, 73.4 million Americans moved. Fifty-six percent
of these moves were within the same country. Twenty percent were between counties but in
the same state. Nineteen percent were moves to a different state. Some families even went
abroad.

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阅读理解。     English is fast becoming the language of science around the world, but what is its future among
everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage(比率) of native English speakers is
declining (降低) globally while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by
increasing numbers of people. But English will continue to remain widespread and important.
     However, British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance (主导) by the middle of this century to rank, after Chinese, about equally with Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu. "The
number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise, but it isn"t rising nearly as fast as the numbers of many other languages around the world, simply because the main population group has been
largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken," he says.
     In a recent article in the journal Science, Mr. Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the
top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon. These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay,
spoken in south and Southeast Asia.
     David Crystal, the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, says about 1.5
billion of the world"s six billion people speak it as a second tongue compared to the 400 million native
speakers. But another expert on the English language says Mr. Graddol underestimates (低估) the future
of its dominance. "Nobody quite knows what"s going to happen because no language has been in this
position before. But all the evidence (证据) suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a
hill and is getting faster," he said. 1. In David Graddol"s opinion, English will _____.     A. remain widespread and important
B. be more important than any other language
C. lose its dominant position
D. die away in the near future2. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that _____.     A. snowballs will roll down faster than language balls
B. the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past
C. English language will soon drop in dominance
D. more and more language users will choose English3. How many experts does the passage mention who express their ideas about the future of English?     A. 2.
B. 3.
C. 4.
D. 5.4. According to David Graddol, which of the following will possibly be one of the languages that will be most widely spoken?     A. Malay.
B. Arabic.
C. Urdu.
D. German.5. What should be the best title for the passage?    A. English Remaining the Dominant Position
B. The Future of English? Who Knows?
C. Opinions from Different Experts
D. The English Language Snowball Rolling Down

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