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阅读理解。     The dog, called Prince, was a clever animal and a slave to Williams. From morning till night, when Williams
was at home, Prince never left his sight. The dog had a number of duties, for which Williams had patiently
trained him and, like the good pupil he was, Prince lived for the chance to show his abilities.
     When Williams wanted to put on his boots, he would say "Boots" very quietly and within seconds the dog
would drop them at his feet. At nine every morning, Prince ran off to the store, returning shortly not only with
Williams" daily paper but with a packet of cigarettes. A gun dog by breed (品种), Prince had a large soft mouth
for the safe carrying of hunted creatures, so the paper and the cigarettes came to no harm, never even showing
a tooth mark.
     Williams was a railway man, an engine driver, and he wore a uniform which smelled of oil fuel. He had to
work at odd times-"days", "late days" or "nights". Over the years Prince got to know these periods of work and
rest, knew when his master would leave the house and return, and the dog did not waste this knowledge. If
Williams overslept, as he often did, Prince barked at the bedroom door until he woke, much to the anger of the
family. On his return, Williams" slippers were brought to him.
     A curious thing happened to Williams during the snow and ice of last winter. One evening he slipped and
fell on the icy road somewhere between the village and his home. He was so badly injured that he stayed in bed
for three days; and not until he got up and dressed again did he discover that he had lost his wallet containing
over fifty pounds. The house was turned upside down in the search, but the wallet was not found. However,
two days later-that was five days after the fall, Prince dropped the wallet into Williams" hand. Very muddy and
wet through, the little case still contained fifty-three pounds, Williams" driving license and a few other papers.
Where the dog had found it no one could tell, but he had found it and recognized it probably by the slight oil
smell on the worn leather.1. What does the passage tell us about gun dogs? A. Their teeth are well-developed when they are very young.
B. They can carry back hunted birds without hurting them.
C. They are fed well, producing many young dogs.
D. They are the most intelligent of all dogs. 2. How did Prince perform his duties? A. He did his best but was not often successful.
B. He did them unwillingly but got them over.
C. He had few opportunities to do them.
D. He was delighted to show them off. 3. Williams did not realize his loss until several days later because _____. A. he trusted the dog to find the wallet
B. he had left the wallet on the train
C. he had no chance to feel in his pockets
D. he was busy with his work all the time 4. What might help Prince to find Williams" wallet? A. The remaining smell of fuel on the case.
B. The photo on Williams" driving license.
C. The footprints of Williams" in the snow.
D. The strong smell of the worn leather. 5. What does the writer think of Prince? A. Skillful and gentle.
B. Clever and amusing.
C. Proud and fierce.
D. Devoted and smart.
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阅读理解。     Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday
when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route through the boot
(行李箱).
     Mr. Johnson"s car had finished up in a ditch (沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent, after skidding (打滑) on ice
and hitting a bank. "Fortunately, the water began to come in slowly," Mr. Johnson said. "I couldn"t force the
doors because they were jammed (堵塞) against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows
because I knew water would come in." Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sittingborrne, Kent, first tried to
attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn.
     Later he said, "It was really a half penny that saved my life." It was the only coin I had in my pocket and
I used it to unscrew (拧开) the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered hard with a hammer trying to make
someone hear, but no help came.
     It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat and a further ten minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot.
Then Mr. Johnson found a wretch (扳手) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. "It
was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in.
I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled (爬) clear as the car filled up."
     His hands and arms were cut and bruised (擦伤). Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was
looked after by the farmer"s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Wrapped in a blanket, he said, "That thirty minutes seemed
like hours." Only the tips of the car wheels could be seen, the police said last night. The car had sunk into (陷
入) two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch. 1. What is the best title for this newspaper article? A. The Story of Mr. Johnson, a Sweet Salesman
B. Driver Escapes through Car Boot
C. Car Boot Can Serve as the Escape Route
D. The Driver Survived a Terrible Car Accident 2. Which of the following is the most important to Mr. Johnson? A. The hammer.
B. The coin.
C. The screw.
D. The horn. 3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. Mr. Johnson"s car stood on its boot as it fell down.
B. Mr. Johnson could not escape from the door because it was full of sweet jam.
C. Mr. Johnson"s car accident was partly due to the slippery road.
D. Mr. Johnson struggled in the pouring mud as he unscrewed the backseat. 4. The underlined part "Finally it gave" means that _____. A. luckily the door was tom away in the end
B. at last the wretch went broken
C. the lock came open after all the efforts
D. the chance was lost at the last minute 5. It may be inferred from the passage that _____. A. the ditch was along a quiet country road
B. the accident happened on a clear warm day
C. the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch
D. the accident was partly due to Mr. Johnson"s carelessness
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完形填空。     I remember vividly the call that changed my life. It was Tuesday, February 18, when the   1   rang in the
kitchen of my Los Angeles home. On the   2   was Marty Banderas, a literary agent to whom I had sent a draft
(草稿) of my novel three weeks earlier. "I have a couple of   3  ." Banderas said, "First, how old are you?" "I"m
48," I replied. "Are you in good   4  ?" "Yes, excellent. What"s this about?" "I"ve sold your novels   5   one and
a half million dollars."
     I sat down in   6  . I had written over fourteen novels in twenty years, but each one had been   7   by the
publishers. I suppose many people would have been   8  , but not me. Each time, I just   9   writing another one.
My husband advised me to find something else to do. But I refused to  10  up. Seeing this book  11  was the
best thing that has ever happened to me. It"s a mystery story (like all the others) and it was on the best seller 
 12  two weeks after publication!
     I got my first lesson in story  13  from my grandmother. She used to read me stories. She was the one who
gave me encouragement of  14 . She sparked (鼓舞, 激励) my  15  and she has been a  16  influence on me. I
always had stories running through my  17  as soon as I could write. I  18  them down on paper.
     I married young and have three children, but I never stopped writing,  19  novels between doing the diapers
(尿布) and dishes. I am writing another novel now. Yes, my  20  has changed my life.
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(     )1. A. phone       
(     )2. A. line        
(     )3. A. novels      
(     )4. A. wealth      
(     )5. A. to          
(     )6. A. need        
(     )7. A. rejected    
(     )8. A. worried     
(     )9. A. couldn"t help 
(     )10. A. hold        
(     )11. A. sold        
(     )12. A. books       
(     )13. A. writing     
(     )14. A. use         
(     )15. A. hope        
(     )16. A. lasting     
(     )17. A. head        
(     )18. A. took        
(     )19. A. writing     
(     )20. A. friend      

B. bell      
B. step      
B. things    
B. health    
B. for       
B. joy       
B. received  
B. encouraged
B. got down to    
B. look      
B. published 
B. shops     
B. organizing
B. love      
B. efforts   
B. normal    
B. mouth     
B. put       
B. reading   
B. call      
C. clock      
C. outside    
C. questions  
C. state      
C. on         
C. settlements
C. decided    
C. discouraged    
C. got used to
C. give       
C. printed    
C. record     
C. telling    
C. meaning    
C. novels     
C. careful    
C. voice      
C. broke      
C. developing 
C. success    
D. alarm        
D. doorway      
D. problems       
D. order         
D. in          
D. shock        
D. lost         
D. excited      
D. went on      
D. set          
D. passed       
D. list         
D. reading      
D. respect        
D. imagination               
D. general       
D. work         
D. added         
D. translating   
D. work        
阅读理解。

     Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents"
home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station (加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City,
where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register (收款台),
I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.
     I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped
and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas
station. They said they would take me to my friend"s. We chatted on the way to the city, and when I got
out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
     I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present
from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.
     Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In the late afternoon I returned to my
car and found that I"d left the lights on all day, and the battery (电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the
Friendly Ford dealership-a shop selling cars-was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in
the showroom.
     "Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck
to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say
thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and
say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
     "Thank you"-two powerful words. They"re easy to say and mean so much.

1. The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City _____.
A. to visit a friend
B. to see his parents
C. to pay at the cash register
D. to have more gas for his car
2. The phrase "took off" underlined in Paragraph 2 means "_____".
A. turned off
B. moved off
C. put up
D. set up
3. What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?
A. He had it pulled back to the gas station.
B. The couple sent him a business card.
C. The couple offered to help him.
D. He called his friend for help.
4. The battery of the author"s car was dead because _____.
A. something went wrong with the lights
B. the meeting lasted a whole day
C. he forgot to turn off the lights
D. he drove too long a distance
5. By telling his own experiences,the author tries to show _____.
A. how to write a thank-you letter
B. how to deal with car problems
C. the kind-heartedness of older people
D. the importance of expressing thanks
阅读理解。
     After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked to pay a visit to a special student. An illness had kept the
boy home, but he was interested in meeting me. I was told it would mean a great deal to him, so I agreed.
     During the nine-mile drive to his home, I found out something about Matthew. He had muscular dystrophy
(肌肉萎缩症). When he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to five, and then they
were told he would not make it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal
power lifter, and I knew about overcoming difficulties and going for my dreams.
     I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. Never once did he complain or ask, "Why me?" He spoke about
winning and succeeding and going for his dreams. Obviously, he knew what he was talking about. He didn"t
mention that his classmates had made fun of him because he was different. He just talked about his hopes for
the future, and how one day he wanted to lift weights with me. When we had finished talking, I went to my
briefcase and pulled out the first gold medal I had won and put it around his neck. I told him he was more of
a winner and knew more about success and overcoming obstacles (困难) than I ever would. He looked at it
for a moment, then took it off and handed it back to me. He said, "You are a champion. You eamed that medal.
Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you."
     Last summer I received a letter from Matthew"s parents telling me that Matthew had passed away. They
wanted me to have a letter he had written to me a few days before:
     Dear Dick,
     My mum said I should send you a thank-you letter for the picture you sent me. I also want to tet you know
that the doctors tell me that I don"t have long time to live any more, but I still smile as much as I can.
     I told you someday that I would go to the Olympics and win, a gold medal, but I know now I will never get
to do that. However, I know I"m a champion, and God knows that too. When I get to Heaven, God will give
me my medal and when you get there, I will show it to you. Thank you for loving me.
                                                                                                                                        Your friend,
                                                                                                                                        Matthew
1. The boy looked forward to meeting the author because ____.
A. he was also good at weight lifting
B. he wanted to get to the Olympics and win a medal
C. he was one of the author"s fans
D. he admired the author very much
2. From the underlined sentence in the third paragraph we can know the boy never complained about ____.
A. how unlucky he was to have this disease
B. not being able to go to school
C. why the author had never come to see him before
D. not getting a medal
3. From the passage we learn that ____.
A. Matthew was an athlete
B. Matthew had a positive attitude towards life
C. The author used to have the same disease as Matthew
D. Matthew became a champion before he died
4. Matthew didn"t accept the author"s medal because ____.
A. he thought it was too expensive
B. he was sure that he could win one in the future
C. he thought it was of no use to him as he would die soon
D. he would not be pitied by others
5. What would be the best title of this passage?
A. A Sick Boy
B. A Special Friend
C. A Real Champion
D. A Famous Athlete
阅读理解。
     Some time ago, I discovered a whole lot of antique (古董) shops near my home. So I left home one
morning carrying the chair that had a broken leg. I didn"t think there would be any difficulty in getting it
mended. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly recaption (接待). I was quite wrong. The man
wouldn"t even look at my chair.
     The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth-so I
decided that my approach must be wrong.
     I went into the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the
shopkeeper, "Would you like to buy a chair?" He looked it over carefully and said, "Yes. How much do
you want for it, sir?" "Twenty pounds," I said. "OK," he said, "I"ll give you twenty pounds." "It"s got a
slightly broken leg," I said. "Yes, I saw that, it"s nothing."
     Everything was going according to the plan and I was getting excited. "What will you do with it?" I
asked. "Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done." "I"ll buy it," I said. "What do you mean? You"ve
just sold it to me," he said. "Yes, I know but I"ve changed my mind. I"m sorry, I"ll give you twenty-seven
pounds for it." "Your must be crazy," he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. "I know what you want.
You want me to repair your chair." "You"re right," I said. "And what would you have done if I had walked
in and said, "Would you mend this chair for me?"" "I wouldn"t have agreed to do it," he said. "We don"t do
repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I"ll mend this for you, shall we say for five?" He
was a very nice man and was greatly amused (感到有趣) by the whole thing.
1. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer ____.
A. was rather impolite
B. was warmly received
C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair
D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair
2. The expression "the penny dropped" in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ____.
A. changed his mind
B. accepted the offer
C. saw the writer"s purpose
D. decided to help the writer
3. How much did the writer pay?
A.£5.
B.£7.
C.£20.
D.£27.
4. From the text, we can learn that the writer was ____.
A. honest
B. careful
C. smart
D. funny
5. The underlined word "approach" in the second paragraph means ____.
A. a plan for doing things
B. a decision to sell things
C. an idea of repairing things
D. a way of doing things