1.阅读理解
A girl with blue eyes is a blue-eyed girl. A man with long legs is a long-legged man. A woman with white hair is a white-haired woman. Children who have good looks are good-looking children. What do you do when you want to buy clothes? You go to a shop. If you can find clothes that are the right size for you, and if they are ready to wear, you will probably buy them. They are called ready-made clothes. If you can not find clothes that are the right size, you will go to a tailor's shop. A tailor is a man who makes clothes. He will measure you carefully and will then make clothes for you. Such clothes are called tailor-made clothes.
What do we call a man who is dressed badly? We call him a badly-dressed man. A woman who is dressed well is called a well-dressed woman.
What do you wear when it rains heavily? You wear a coat that will keep the rain out. Such a coat is called a raincoat. It is made of waterproof cloth-cloth that does not let water pass through. We have a lot of rain in England. If you come to England, bring a raincoat and an umbrella. You will find them useful.
If the floor, walls and ceiling of a room are made so that sound cannot pass through the wall, we say that the room is sound-proof. There are sound-proof rooms in all broadcasting stations.
（1）The clothes which you buy from the supermarket are called clothes.
A. tailor-made B. ready-made C. hand-made D. mass production
（2）If you come to England, bring both a raincoat and an umbrella because .
A. there is a lot of rain in England B. there are few umbrellas in the country
C. gentlemen usually carry umbrellas with them in England D. walking with an umbrella in hand is popular in England
（3）On back of a watch we can often see the word “water-proof”. The word means .
A. water won't get into the watch B. you can put water into the watch
C. not putting the watch into water D. you can see the watch clearly in water
（4）What do you think is the best title for the article?
A. The Forms of Compound Words B. Compound Words in Everyday Life
C. How to Use Compound Words D. Water-proof Cloth in the Best
2.阅读理解
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his family immigrated to New York, America, from Dublin, Ireland, in 1848 when he was just six months old. As he grew up, Augustus liked racing his friends around the block, buying candies at the store, especially drawing—drawing pictures of the shoemakers at his father's shoe shop. At the age of 13, his father told him it was time to go to work. Augustus replied, "I should like it if I could do something which would help me to be an artist." He began as an apprentice to a cameo cutter out of stone and shell, and carved cameos of people, lions, and even the head of Hercules from Greek mythology, when the Civil War had just begun.
At 19, with his earnings and his parents' support, he travelled to Paris and Rome for further training and artistic study. Before he left, he drew a portrait of his mother in pencil and sculpted a small bust(半身像) of his father out of clay. Then, 22-year-old Augustus opened an art studio in Rome and worked on his first life-sized sculpture, called Hiawatha. An art patron was impressed with this sculpture and promised to help Augustus "until your genius and labors shall have met with the reward to which I feel they are entitled".
In 1876, Augustus was chosen to design a monument to the Civil War hero Admiral David Farragut of the U. S. Navy. Completed five years later, when he was 33, his first major sculpture for the U. S. was unveiled at Madison Square in New York City, the sculptor's boyhood home. One art critic called it "the best monument of the kind the city has to show". Then the giant Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago in a setting by architect White, 1884-1887, was considered the finest portrait statue in the U. S.
However, in 1900, aged 52, his doctors told him he had cancer. Even though he was often ill, he continued to work at his home and studio in Cornish, New Hampshire.
In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt requested that Augustus redesign American coins—to convey the strength of the nation. Augustus made lifelike pencil sketches of his coin designs. Yet, Augustus died in August 1907, two months before his l0-dollar and 20-dollar gold coins were issued. Augustus Saint-Gaudens had fulfilled his dream-and more! He was one of the greatest American sculptors not only of his day but also of all time.
（1）What did Augustus like doing as a child?
A. He enjoyed selling candies at the store.
B. He enjoyed chasing after his friends at school.
C. He liked drawing pictures of his father's workers.
D. He liked going to work as a shoemaker in his father's shop.
（2）How did Augustus become a sculptor?
A. He received sponsorship from an art critic.
B. He sculpted a small bust of his parents out of clay.
C. He opened an art studio in Rome and worked on Hiawatha.
D. He learned hard as an apprentice and carved many nice works.
（3）When did Roosevelt request Augustus to redesign American coins?
A. At his age of 33. B. At his age of 57. C. At his age of 52. D. At his age of 59.
（4）What is the text mainly about?
A. The history of the Civil War. B. The remarkable sculptor's life.
C. The comments on Augustus' works. D. The outstanding sculptor's masterpieces.
3.根据短文理解，选择正确答案。
I'm a 20-year-old boy,and the following is my story.
A month after I graduated from high school in August,2007,I was coming home from swim practice in the training centre of the city and was involved in a car accident.I was so seriously injured that I was in a coma for more than two months at Prince Georges Hospital.
I suffered a lot from the experience of dying eight times during my coma and I couldn't open my mouth to talk or to communicate when I eventually came around.At that time,it seemed that walking was never going to happen again due to all the extreme injuries.Just like my body,my dreams were completely destroyed.But I was not going to let my injuries stop me from realizing my dreams.
After receiving a total of 15 operations and 36 blood transfusions,I had to make every great effort to learn to talk,eat,walk,shower,and live on my own again.When I was out of hospital,I still had to Go to outpatient therapy in Waldorf,Maryland.After I spent a few months in a wheelchair,I took baby steps to walk on my own.It was a miracle that I was able to walk again,but I still wanted to prove that I could not only walk,but also run.When it came true,I wanted to get back into the pool again.After having a few lung tests,I was able to go in the pool a little bit each week. After a few months of swim training,I began my freshman year at St.Mary's College of Maryland and then became a proud member of the swim team.
By telling my story,I want to make a positive influence on the world.I am just trying to live every day to the fullest and inspire other people never to give up their dreams no matter how bad a situation is to them.I remember when I was still in my hospital bed,I would have my mom and dad push me round in my wheelchair to the other rooms to see the other patients and chat with them and their family members.I wanted to let them know that everything was going to be okay.Somehow,things would work out for the best.
（1）The underlined word "coma" in Paragraph 2 probably has the meaning of " ".
A. operation B. unconsciousness C. treatment D. emergency
（2）According to Paragraph 3,it can be inferred that the author .
A. was unable to talk or communicate B. was in despair
C. faced physical and mental challenges D. felt anxious about his state
（3）In the last paragraph,the author mainly wants to show .
A. his positive influence on other patients B. his meaningful life
C. his purpose of sharing his story D. his great achievements
（4）The best title for the passage would be " ".
A. Actions speak louder than words B. Attitude is everything
C. Everything happens for a reason D. A Good beginning is half done
4.阅读理解
I'll be the first to admit that I am a technophobe(对技术有恐惧感的人). Who would have guessed that a website would help repay a 20-year-old loan?
I'll always remember my last day at school. My best friend, Jenny, had organized a party in the Sixth Form Common Room.
Jenny asked me to go to the supermarket with her to buy all the snacks. "I'm really looking forward to this party, Stingy," she said. Everyone called me Stingy instead of Debbie because they thought I didn't like to spend money. Actually, it was true.
"There's lots of money in the kitty. Let's go crazy!" Going crazy meant buying enough snacks to feed an army. It came to ￡19.90, which was a lot of money in 1982.
Jenny gave me a guilty(内疚的) look. "I've left-the kitty money in the common room. Can you pay and I'll give you back the money?"
"Sure," I replied, trying to look relaxed. "Neither a lender or a borrower be" was my motto(座右铭) but I didn't want to look stingy. I gave ￡20 to the impatient shop assistant.
Well, the Party was a great success. So great that I completely forgot about my loan until I was flying to America the next day. I was going to live with my uncle's family until I started university.
I tried to get in touch with Jenny but her family had moved. My ￡20 was lost. Until...
I'd heard about a website called Friends Reunited which helped people contact old school friends. My husband helped me log on and find my school. There she was, Jenny Frost.
I'm now married with a beautiful daughter called Debbie. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Debbie "Stingy" Jones? I still owe her ￡20!
We met two months later and the ￡20 was returned, plus interest(利息) of course. After all, I'm a bank manager now, so loans are my business.
（1）Everyone called the author Stingy because they thought .
A. she was poor B. she was mean C. she was lovely D. she was friendly
（2）Why did Stingy lend her money to Jenny?
A. Because Jenny lost her money. B. Because Jenny never borrowed money from her.
C. Because Stingy had a lot of money in the kitty. D. Because Stingy wanted to be generous with her friend.
（3）When did Stingy get her loan back?
A. The next day. B. At the last day at school.
C. Two months later. D. About 20 years later.
（4）What can be the best title?
A. Neither a lender or a borrower be. B. Always be a "Stingy".
C. Friends and Money Reunited. D. A loan has to be paid back.
5.阅读理解
In China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, because the countryside is much poorer than the city, and often there isn't much work there. Services such as hospital and transport are usually much better in the city than in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.
But in the big cities of Europe like London or Pads, people are moving out of the city. These rich families want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noise and the dirt of the city, and they are tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses. They don't want to live in the cities any more. They want a house with a garden in the countryside, and breathe the fresh air there.
So they move out of the cities. Some don't go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities, other people move to the real countryside with sheep, cows and green fields. There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.
Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy. After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don't make so much money and there isn't much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and aren't always very friendly.
As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside move back to the city. "
It's wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights," they say.
（1）Which is NOT the reason for people moving to the cities in China?
A. The countryside is much poorer than me city. B. People in the countryside have nothing to eat.
C. People in the countryside don't have much work to do there. D. Services in cities are usually much better than those in the countryside.
（2）Why do some rich families in Europe move to the countryside?
A. Because they will find good jobs. B. Because they can make more money there.
C. Because they are tired of living in the city. D. Because they like feeding sheep and cows in the green fields.
（3）The underlined sentence in the last paragraph shows __________.
A. they are happy to move back to the city B. they miss their friends in the countryside
C. they still want to move to the countryside D. they are tired of the noise and the crowded streets in the city
（4）The best title of this passage may be “__________”.
A. A happy life! B. Living in the city!
C. Living in the countryside! D. Moving out or moving back?
6.阅读理解
It isn't often that zookeepers call on craftsman for help. But cold weather at the Wildlife SOS Elephant Conservation and Care Center in northern India was putting elephants at risk. So the center's staff joined forces with locals to find a creative way to keep the animals warm. Now the elephants are stepping out in style, thanks to volunteers who made use of their crafting talents to knit (编织) enormous sweaters to protect the animals.
Wildlife SOS is a conservation group that has been taking action against animal cruelty and saving wildlife in danger since 1995. Their Elephant Conservation and Care Center is devoted to rescuing the large animals from abuse in circuses, illegal dealing, and other circumstances where they have been ignored or treated with extreme cruelty. There are currently 20 elephants living at the center, and the staff hope to take in 50 more of the creatures this year.
Because most of the elephants housed at the center are recovering from injuries or are elderly and weak, they are particularly vulnerable to cold temperatures. When the staff reported near-freezing nighttime temperatures in the winter, volunteers from surrounding villages began knitting enormous sweaters to keep the elephants warm. The monumental sweaters are large enough to cover the elephants' backs, bellies, and legs.
Making the sweaters is a big undertaking—each one takes approximately four weeks to create, with volunteers working together on the enormous clothes. Local villagers have already made sweaters for three of the 23 elephants on their own, each with a unique pattern and color.
If you're also looking for something happy and heartwarming, this is it. The elephants usually wear blankets to keep warm during colder months and you can purchase a blanket for an elephant on the Wildlife SOS website.
（1）What did the center's staff do?
A. They managed to resist warm weather. B. They abused and killed elephants illegally.
C. They put elephants at risk in cold weather. D. They worked together with locals to aid elephants.
（2）Why did villagers knit sweaters for elephants?
A. To make them popular in circuses. B. To dress them up to attract visitors.
C. To let zookeepers identify every elephant. D. To keep them warm during colder months.
（3）The second paragraph is mainly about .
A. animal abuse B. the introduction of Wildlife SOS
C. illegal trade of ivory D. Wildlife SOS rescuing plants
（4）The underlined word “vulnerable” in Paragraph 3 can be best replaced by .
A. fresh B. attached C. sensitive D. familiar
7.阅读理解
All too often, a choice that seems sustainable(可持续的)turns out on closer examination to be problematic. Probably the best example is the rush to produce ethanol(乙醇) for fuel from corn. Corn is a renewable resource —you can harvest it and grow more, almost limitlessly. So replacing gas with corn ethanol seems like a great idea.
One might get a bit more energy out of the ethanol than that used to make it, which could still make ethanol more sustainable than gas generally, but that's not the end of the problem. Using corn to make ethanol means less corn is left to feed animals and people, which drives up the cost of food. That result leads to turning the fallow land –including, in some cases, rain forest in places such as Brazil—into farmland, which in turn gives off lots of carbon dioxide (CO) into the air. Finally, over many years, the energy benefit from burning ethanol would make up for the forest loss. But by then, climate change would have progressed so far that it might not help.
You cannot really declare any practice “sustainable” until you have done a complete life-cycle analysis of its environmental(环境的) costs. Even then, technology and public keep developing, and that development can lead to unforeseen and undesired results. The admirable goal of living sustainably requires plenty of thought on an ongoing basis.
（1）What might directly cause the loss of the forest according to the text?
A. The growing demand for energy to make ethanol B. The increasing carbon dioxide in the air
C. The greater need for farmland D. The big change in weather.
（2）The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to “ ”
A. the energy benefit B. the forest loss C. climate change D. burning ethanol
（3）The author thinks that replacing gas with corn ethanol is .
A. impractical B. acceptable C. admirable D. useless
（4）What does the author mainly discuss in the text?
A. Technology B. Sustainability C. Ethanol energy D. Environmental protection
8.阅读理解
A chip inserted in a young quadriplegic's (四肢麻痹患者) brain is already improving his quality of life. Soon the benefits may be more widespread.
A 25-year-old man unable to move from the neck down recently did what many assumed impossible. After a knife attack that had left him paralyzed, all he could move was his head, which he used to push a switch and call for a nurse. And he could turn his wheelchair by blowing into a straw near his face. That was it.
Then last June, a Foxborough (Mass.) company called Cyber Kinetics opened the man's skull and inserted a special chip no larger than a baby aspirin. That insert has given him a few additional and precious abilities. When connected to a special computer via a cable, the chip translates the young man's thoughts into commands that let him move a cursor across a PC screen and open e-mail. He can draw a circle with a computer painting program. And he can use a robotic hook(钩) to perform simple tasks like picking up a candy and sliding it across a table.
All he has to do is to think.
Several new studies have begun or been completed in the past year. In fact, more than half of the scientific papers in this field, called brain-to-computer interaction (BCI), have been published in the past two years, notes Jonathan Wolpaw, a research physician at Wadsworth Center, the New York State Health Dept.'s research laboratory.
Brain surgeries (手术) are no longer rare: Thousands of Parkinson's disease patients have had special devices inserted in their brains to ease uncontrollable shaking and other symptoms. The inserts themselves have improved, so the body doesn't reject them as furiously(猛烈地). And significant development has been achieved in software used to interpret the brain's signals and change them into commands understood by computers.
But increased demand for thought technology remains the biggest reason for the field's progress. Today, 4 million Americans live with paralysis according to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
Scientists hope that thought technology will reduce the impact of such disabilities. People with spinal-cord injuries, for example, often lose their ability to walk because the communications network between their brain and their legs has been interrupted. The brain still commands the leg muscles to move, but they don't hear its orders.
Thought technology, scientists hope, will bridge this communications gap. "Our goal is for you to see paralyzed people eating at a restaurant and for you not to know that they are paralyzed," says John Donoghue, founder and chief scientific officer at Cyber Kinetics.
（1）What was the young man's trouble after a knife attack?
A. It was impossible for him to do anything. B. By no means could he call for a nurse.
C. He could not use his organs under the neck. D. He was unable to move his head.
（2）What plays the most important role in improving the young man's quality of life?
A. A chip B. A computer C. A robotic hook D. A company
（3）What can we learn from Paragraph Six?
A. There used to be a lot of brain surgeries.
B. There has been some progress in the field of thought technology.
C. People with Parkinson's disease reject the use of the chip in their brains.
D. No software has been developed to interpret the brain's signals.
（4）What is the passage mainly about?
A. Communications gap B. Thought technology
C. American quadriplegics D. Human brains
9.阅读理解
A new study suggests that washing dishes by hand is healthier than using a dishwasher.
Nobody likes doing the dishes, but it turns out that doing this task might pay off in an unexpected way. According to a new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics, washing dishes by hand instead of using a dishwasher might prevent the development of allergies (过敏).
Researchers in Sweden surveyed the parents of 1,029 children aged 7 and 8. They discovered that children whose families hand-washed the dishes instead of using a machine were less likely to have allergies.
Earlier research has shown that dishes washed by machine are cleaner than those washed by hand. So why would kids who eat with slightly dirtier plates be better when it comes to preventing allergies? One explanation is based on a theory known as the “hygiene hypothesis,” which says the reason why kids develop allergies is that their environment is actually too clean. Your immune system keeps you healthy by fighting germs like viruses and bacteria. But when you have allergies, it overreacts and tries to fight ordinary things like pollen(花粉) or certain foods.
Being exposed to germs, especially early in life is good training for the immune system, says the lead author of the study, Dr. Bill Hesselmar of Queen Silvia Hospital in Sweden. “You stimulate the immune system in various ways and it becomes tolerant.”
This study shows that while using the dishwasher might be easier, the old-fashioned method of cleaning up could be better for your health.
（1）What is the benefit of washing dishes by hand?
A. Hand-washed dishes are cleaner than those washed by machine.
B. Washing dishes by hand is easier than washing by machine
C. Washing dishes by hand costs less time than washing by machine
D. Washing dishes by hand might reduce the chance of developing allergies
（2）What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 4 refer to?
A. bacteria B. germs C. the immune system D. allergy
（3）Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Using a dishwasher can prevent us from having allergies.
B. Exposure to germs early in life may improve kids' immune system.
C. Our immune system can only fight bacteria and viruses.
D. Children should use dirty plates when they have meals.
（4）What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The clean environment accounts for kids' developing allergies.
B. Whether parents should wash dishes by hand or use a dishwasher.
C. Washing dishes by hand may prevent kids from getting allergies.
D. What “hygiene hypothesis” is and how our immune system works.
答案
1. （1）B（2）A（3）A（4）B 2. （1）C（2）D（3）B（4）B
3. （1）B（2）C（3）C（4）B 4. （1）B（2）D（3）D（4）C
5. （1）B（2）C（3）A（4）D 6. （1）D（2）D（3）B（4）C
7. （1）C（2）A（3）A（4）B 8. （1）C（2）A（3）B（4）B
9. （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 下载本文
