Mr Clarke works in a middle school. He likes reading and often 36 some books from the library. He keeps 37 to the radio every morning and reading 38 after supper. So he knows much and teaches well. His 39 worship(崇拜) him very much. Mike, Mr Clarke’s little son, is only nine. He 40 likes reading books. And he often asks his father some questions. Mr Clarke always thinks he’s too young to understand him and chooses 41 ones to answer. Of course the boy is not satisfied with it .
One day Mike read 42 about the electric lights and was 43 it. When his father told him to do some housework , he went on thinking of it. He asked him 44 questions , and his father answered all. Then his father said proudly, “Fathers always know 45 than sons! ”
The boy thought for a while and said, “ 46 !” “Oh? Why?”
Mike didn’t answer and asked, instead, “Who invented the electric lights?” “Thomas Edison,” answered Mr Clarke. “Why didn’t his father invent them, then? ”
Looking at his son, Mr Clarke didn’t know 47 to answer! 36. A. finds B. sells C. buys D. borrows 37. A. watching B. going C. listening D. touching 38. A. letters B. newspapers C. messages D. e-mails 39. A. parents B. teachers C. students D. classmates 40. A. also B. even C. never D. only
41. A. more difficult B. the most difficult C. easy D. the easiest 42. A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything 43. A. afraid of 44. A. a few 45. A. most 46. A. I agree 47. A. where
B. interested in C. worried about D. angry with B. few C. a little D. little B. more C. least D. less B. So do I C. neither am I D. I don’t think so B. when C. what D. which
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六、阅读理解 （共26分，每小题2分）
阅读下面的四篇短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
A
We want to study how students at our school spend money. Look at the following graph（图表）, it shows the differences in how students spend money in two different years. Items Drinks and snacks Movies Transportation CDs Computer games E-mail and phone costs Books Others Last year 19% 15% 14% 13% 11% 10% 9% 9% This year 20% 14% 14% 11% 10% 16% 11% 4% 48. What do students spend most of their money on?
A. Movies. B. Books. C. Computer games. D. Drinks and snacks. 49. Compared with last year, only________ stays the same. A. CDs B. phone C. transportation D. others 50. Which expense(开支) was lower this year?
A. Books. B. Transportation. C. Phone. D. CDs.
B
Tony went into the station soon after five o’clock in the afternoon. This is a bad time to travel in London, both by bus and by train, because lots of people go home from work at this hour. He had to join a long queue of people who were waiting for tickets. When at last his turn came, he got the right ticket. By asking several people
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the way, he also found the right platform. It was crowded and he was not able to get on the first train, but he was able to move nearer to the edge of the platform to be ready to get on the next one. When a train came in, Tony was thrown onto the train by the rush of people from behind. The doors closed and the train moved off before he was able to get his breath out. Since he was not able to see the names of the stations where the train stopped, he had to count the number of stops so that he knew where to get off. His station was the seventh along the line.
When the train reached the seventh station, Tony got off. But he was surprised to see that he had got off at a station that he had never heard of. A man on the platform told him that he had traveled on a train going in the wrong direction. 51. Tony found_________ when he arrived at the station.
A. many trains there B. many people waiting to buy tickets C. only a few people there D. a few people waiting to buy tickets 52. Why did Tony fail to see the names of the stations? A. They were too small for him to see. B. He was too lazy to see them. C. It was too crowded for him to see them. D. He was too busy to see them.
53. What did Tony do when he was on the train?
A. He saw the names of stops. B. He closed the doors.
C. He hurried to take a seat. D. He counted the number of stops.
C
Advertising is highly developed in the twenty-first century and has become a part of our life. The development of radio, television, cinema, magazines and newspapers has gone hand in hand with the development of advertising. Why is advertising so popular? Is it a waste of money? It has been believed again and again that repeated advertising increases product sales. Since it increases production , the price can be lower. So advertising, instead of making a product
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more expensive, makes it cheaper.
Advertising is now a scientific business. Once managers would say jokingly, “Most of us know that half of what we spend on advertising is wasted, but we don’t know which half.” Now, all parts of an advertising program are well studied. What makes a good advertisement? There have been major changes in advertising in the past sixty years. People read advertisements partly for information and partly for pleasure. Today’s advertisements often start with a question, for attracting the reader’s attention. Of course, most advertisements have some information. But this is usually in a subject that is interesting and often funny. To be interesting is very important. Sometimes advertisements tell a story, or the story may be continued over a number of advertisements. However, there is a danger in this. It is possible that the reader will remember the advertisement but not the name of the product.
54. The aim(目的) of advertising is__________ .
A. to spend more money B. to lower the price
C. to increase product sales D. to make a product much better 55. What does the writer think of advertising ?
A. Important. B. Wasteful. C. Useless. D. Unnecessary. 56. Which of the following is true according to this article? A. Advertising makes products more expensive. B. Advertising is just for fun and pleasure. C. Advertising is a waste of money.
D. Some advertisements might make people not pay attention to the
product itself.
D
Mr Ma, a famous psychiatrist(精神病学家) doctor from Beijing once said at an important meeting, “These days many young people have emotional（情绪的） problems. Some students worry because they have to study very hard. Others have
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