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Passage Five Billy Joel was born on Long Island, in New York State. He began taking pi

Passage Five

Billy Joel was born on Long Island, in New York State. He began taking piano lessons at an early age and joined his first rock band when he was fourteen. After playing in a number of Long Island groups, Billy began concentrating on his song-writing. His first album of completely original songs was Cold Spring Harbor. It was released in 1972. Two years later, after the release of the smash-hit albums Piano Man and Street-life Serenade. Billy was named "Best New Male Vocalist" by Cask Box magazine.

51. Billy Joel began taking piano lessons ______.

A. when he joined his first rock band

B. after he was named "Best New Male Vocalist"

C. at fourteen

D. before he was fourteen years old

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第1题

Billy, a hard-working student, is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part

-time job that【C1】______him up every morning at five o' clock, when most people are still【C2】______ asleep. He is a newspaper boy.

Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the【C3】______ where the newspapers always are. The newspapers were【C4】______ to the comer by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to【C5】______ them.

In the winter it is still dark【C6】______ he gets up every day, but during the rest of the year it is【C7】______. Billy'must send the newspapers to the houses of people on his. 【C8】______ in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch(门廊)where it will be【C9】______ from wind and rain or snow. Sometimes his customers give him tips, 【C10】______ him very excited.

Billy earns about$70 per month through hard【C11】______, and he is saving some of the money to go to【C12】______, where he has always been longing to go. Besides that, he【C13】______ the rest of the earnings on records and clothes. Once a month, he has to collect the【C14】______ at night since many of them work during the day. That is when he is【C15】______ so that he is full of excitement. Luckily, he gets greatly supported by his family. Billy has seventy customers now, but he doesn' t feel happy about the number.

He dreams that he will get as many customers as possible some day. If that, he might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe, but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle.

【C1】

A．were

B．take

C．gets

D．pick

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第2题

The author of this passage is mainly concerned with______.A．the significance of discovery

The author of this passage is mainly concerned with______.

A．the significance of discovery of water on the Mars

B．the achievements of U.S. in exploring the Mars

C．the performance of five craft launched to Mars

D．the fate of the science of Mars exploration

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第3题

According to the passage all the followings are true EXCEPT______.A．she graduated from hig

According to the passage all the followings are true EXCEPT______.

A．she graduated from high school

B．she graduated from college

C．she has got her bachelor's degree

D．she teaches five periods for a school day

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第4题

According to the passage which of the following is true？ [A] A fixed star refers a

According to the passage which of the following is true？

[A] A fixed star refers a star that is always stationary on the sky.

[B] Scientists can tell the motion of the earth from the motions of other five planets.

[C] Ancient people had scanty knowledge about the movement of the stars.

[D] All the stars on the sky can be seen all the year around.

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第5题

Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension （75 points) Directions: There are five reading passages in th

Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension (75 points)

Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

Passage One

Are you a good reader？ Good readers know that reading isn't just about knowing words— it's a way of thinking. Here are some tips that may be of some help.

Think before you read. Before you read the text, ask yourself the questions that why you are reading it and what you want to get from it. These will help you choose what words you need to know and what words you can skip or scan.

Think while you are reading. Can you get the meaning of the text without looking up new words in a dictionary？ A text will often give examples that may help you understand some words. For example: Many large Russian cities, such as Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk, have taken steps to protect their culture. The words "Chelyabinsk' and "Irkutsk' may be new to us, but the sentences before and after it tell us what they are.

Think after you read. What is the main idea of the text？ Is the text too easy or too hard for you？

If you practice reading and thinking in this way, you will become a better reader and you will learn better and faster.

31. This passage is probably taken from______.

A. a newspaper for general readers

B. a magazine for language teachers

C. a book for language learners

D. an advertisement for a new book

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第6题

Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five

questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

Passage One

Artificial flowers are used for scientific as well as for decorative purposes. They are made from a variety of materials, such as wax and glass, so skillfully that they can scarcely be distinguished from natural flowers. In making such models, painstaking skill and artistry are called for, as well as thorough knowledge of plant structure. The collection of glass flowers in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University is the most famous in North America and is widely known throughout the scientific world. In all, there are several thousand models in colored glass, the work of two artists-naturalists, Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph.

The intention was to have the collection represent at least one member of each flower family native to the United States. Although it was never completed, it contains more than seven hundred species representing 164 families of flowering plants, a group of fruits showing the effect of fungus diseases, and thousands of flower parts and magnified details. Every detail of these is accurately reproduced in color and structure. The models ate kept in locked cases, as they are too valuable and fragile for classroom use.

31. Which of the following is the best title for the passage？

A. An Extensive Collection of Glass Flowers.

B. The Live Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka.

C. Flowers Native to the United States.

D. Materials Used for Artificial Flowers.

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第7题

Passage Five In order to learn a foreign language well, it is necessary to overcome the

Passage Five

In order to learn a foreign language well, it is necessary to overcome the fear of making mistakes. If the primary goal (目标) of language use is communication (交际), then mistakes are secondary considerations that may be dealt with gradually. On the other hand, students should not ignore their mistakes. The language learner may observe how native speakers express themselves, and how native expressions differ from the way the learner might say them. For example, a Spanish speaker who has been saying "I do it" to express willingness to do something in the immediate future, could, by communicating with native speakers of English, observe that native speakers actually say "I'll do it". The result can serve as a basis for the student to change his way of using the present tense in English. But a student who is unwilling to communicate in the first place would lose this opportunity to learn by trial and error.

52. According to the passage, the present tense in English is ______.

A. not used to express one's readiness to do something in the immediate future

B. used with some verbs but not with others to express future intention

C. basically the same in English as it is in Spanish

D. not the most difficult problem for foreign students

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第8题

Passage Four Three women who secretly buried an 80-year-old woman were put into pris

Passage Four

Three women who secretly buried an 80-year-old woman were put into prison at Birmingham yester day. Two of them, including the dead woman's daughter, kept on collecting her pension (退休金) after her death until their secret was made known to others two years later. The court (法庭) heard that one of the women put on "an Oscar (奥斯卡金奖)—winning performance" by pretending to be the old woman asleep in bed when a social worker called five mouths after Mrs. Townsend's death.

48. Of the three women that buried Mrs. Townsend secretly, one was ______.

A. her neighbor

B. her nurse

C. a social worker

D. her daughter

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第9题

Passage Five Jim was intelligent, but he hated hard work. He said, "You work hard, and m

Passage Five

Jim was intelligent, but he hated hard work. He said, "You work hard, and make a lot of money, and then the government takes most of it. I want easy work that gives me lots of money and that the government doesn't know about".

So he became a thief--but he did not do the stealing himself. He got others to do it. They were much less intelligent than he was, so he arranged everything and told them what to do.

One day they were looking for rich families to rob, and Jim sent one of them to a large beautiful house just outside the town.

It was evening, and when the man looked through one of the windows, he saw a young man and a girl playing on a piano.

When he went back to Jim, he said, "That family can't have much money. Two people were playing on the same piano there."

52. What Jim said can be said to be______.

A. an excuse

B. a lie

C. a joke

D. a truth

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第10题

Passage Five On a Saturday night, Mr. Jones went to Willington and got so drunk at the R

Passage Five

On a Saturday night, Mr. Jones went to Willington and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday. His four men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out hunting, without bothering (麻烦) to feed the animals.

When Mr. Jones got back, he immediately went to sleep on the living-room sofa with the News of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still not fed. At last, they could stand no longer. One of the cows broke into the door of the store-house with her horns (角) and all the animals began to help themselves to the grains.

It was just then that Mr. Jones woke up. And the men came back. The next moment he and his four men were in the store-house with whips in their hands, whipping (鞭打) in all directions. This was more than the hungry animals would bear. Together, they jumped upon their masters. Mr. Jones and his men suddenly found themselves being struck with their horns and kicked from all sides. The situation was quite out of their control. A minute later all five of them were in full fright down the road, with the animals running after them joyfully.

51. Which of the following is TRUE according to the story？

A. Willington was the name of a hotel.

B. Red Lion was the name of a restaurant.

C. News of the World was a TV programme.

D. Mr. Johns went back home at night.

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