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　　Some people have very good memories (記憶力), and can easily learn quite long poems (詩) by hearts. 1

　　Charles Dickens, the famous English author, said that he could walk down any long street in London and then tell you the name of every shop he had passed. Many great men of the world have had wonderful memories.

　　 2 Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child. Some children,like boys and girls who live in foreign countries with their parents,seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. 3 and they are busy with other subjects as well.

　　 4 but it takes photographs not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photograph (照片) with a camera, there is much to do before the photograph is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to be done before we can make a picture remain forever in the mind.

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A．A good memory is a great help in learning a language.

B．There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over.

C．Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

D．In schools it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it.

E．The human mind is rather like a camera.

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　　閱讀下面短文，把A-E五個(gè)句子填入文中空缺處使短文內(nèi)容完整。

　　Basketball is still a young game. It's over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college (學(xué)院) was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. 1 they were unhappy, and some even got into fights time to time.

　　Some of the teachers at the college asked Dr Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play at. 2 and the court (院子) was not very large.

　　Dr Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. 3 It was played between two teams. To make a score, the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet above the floor on the wall. 4 At first, Dr Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, 5 That is how the game got its name.

A．It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors,

B．he had to use fruit baskets instead.

C．As they couldn't play outdoors.

D．It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball.

E．At each end of the court there was such a basket.

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　　Hank was walking along the main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking somewhere to make a telephone call. His car had broken down outside the town and he wanted to get in touch with the car factory. Low clouds were moving across the sky and there was a cold wet wind blowing off the sea. It had rained in the night and water was falling from the trees that lined the street. Hank was glad that he was wearing a thick coat.

　　There was no sign of a call box, nor was there anyone at that early hour whom he could ask. Hank had thought he might find a small shop selling the Sunday papers or a milkman doing his job, but the town was completely dead.

　　Then suddenly Hank found what he was looking for. In a dark narrow street there was a small post office and next to it was the town's only public call box. Hank hurried there but stopped in surprise when he saw through the dirty glass that there was a woman inside. She was very fat, and was wearing a cheap blue raincoat. Hank could not see her face-she was facing the phone with her back against the glass and didn't even raise her head at the sound of his coming nearer and nearer. Carefully, slowly and surprisedly, Hank moved forward, stood a few feet away and lit a cigarette (香煙).

1．How was the weather of the day when the story happened?

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A．Cold, windy but clear.

B．Wet, cloudy but warm.

C．Rainy, windy and cold.

D．Windy, cold and cloudy.

2．Why did Hank want to get in touch with the car factory?

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A．He lost his way while walking along the street.

B．He wanted to find a public call box.

C．He needed to be helped over the difficulty.

D．He felt afraid in the deadly quiet place.

3．The underlined word what in the passage refers to (指的是) ________.

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4．Hank was surprised when he saw a woman in the box because ________.

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A．she was too fat to turn around

B．she was wearing a cheap raincoat

C．he could not see the woman's face

D．he never thought it had been taken up

5．Hank stood a few feet away from the box because ________.

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A．he wanted to have a smoke and take a short rest

B．the woman inside didn't know that he had come nearer

C．he thought it was not safe to be close to the strange woman

D．he thought it was not polite to listen to others' phone calls

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　　Light travels at a speed (速度) which is about a million times faster than that of sound. In one second, light travels about 300,000 kilometers, but sound travels only 340 meters. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a running match. If you stand quite far away from the starter (發(fā)令員), you can see smoke come from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.

　　The fast speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays (射線) left the moon 1. 3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that light which you can see from it tonight started to travel to you 4 years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million kilometers every minute. The light from some of tonight's started on its journey towards you even before you were born.

　　So, if we want to be honest (誠(chéng)實(shí)的), we can not say, “The stars are shining brightly tonight.” We have to say. “The stars look nice. They were shining four years ago but their light has just reached our earth.”

1．The best title of this passage is ________.

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A．Light Travels Faster Than Sound

B．Stars Are Far Away From Us

C．The Speed of Light

D．How Light Rays Travel

2．If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is lifting a gun to 

start a running match, you will find out ________.

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A．light travels a million times faster than sound

B．the smoke of the gun gets into your sight after the sound of the gun-shot

C．sound travels less fast than light

D．the sound of the gun reached you at the same time with the light of the smoke

3．Sunlight obviously (明顯的) ________ than the light of the moon.

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A．has to travel a greater distance (距離)

B．moves less quickly

C．travels much more quickly

D．is less powerful

4．The scientific way of saying ``The stars are shining brightly tonight" should be ________.

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A．the stars have been shining all the time

B．the stars seen tonight will be shining four years later

C．the stars which were shining long ago but are seen tonight

D．the starlight seen tonight could be seen four years ago

5．The light of the nearest star you see tonight has been ________ for years.

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　　Many people go to school for education. They learn language, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a skill (技能) so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher's job is to show his student how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

　　It is always more important to study by oneself than to learn some facts or a formula (公式) by heart. In fact it is quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo didn't get everything from school. But they were all so successful. They invented so many things for mankind. The reason for their success (成功) is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school, they worked hard all their lives, wasting (浪費(fèi)) no time. They would ask many questions they read and they did thousands of experiments (實(shí)驗(yàn)).

　　Above all they know how to use their brains (大腦).

1．What do people go to school for? ________.

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2．The subject that is not spoken of in the article (文章) is ________.

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3．The teachers' job is to teach ________.

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A．everything the students want to know

B．the students everything that they know

C．the students some facts of formulas

D．the students how to learn

4．Einstein, Newton and Galileo did so many things for mankind because ________.

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A．they learned a lot at school

B．they were so successful

C．they knew how to learn new things outside class by themselves

D．they went to college and learned from their professors(教授).

5．Who does the article say didn't waste a single moment? ________.

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A．Great people

B．Persons who work as teachers

C．The great scientists-Newton

D．Great scientists

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　　A man had a parrot. It was a very beautiful bird and every day the man talked to it. “Pretty Polly,” he said, “You are a Pretty Polly.”

　　Every day the man spoke new words to the parrot. “Hello,” he said to it, and then, “Goodbye.”

　　One day the parrot was not in its cage. It was flying about the room. The man came into the room and saw the parrot, “What are you doing?” he said.

　　“What are you doing?” the parrot repeated.

　　The man laughed. Then he went out to visit his friends. That evening a thief (賊) came to the house. He walked round the house and looked into the windows. There was no one at home. The thief broke the door and found some bowls and vases (花瓶). He put them into a bag. Then he went into the bedroom. In the bedroom he found a gold watch and found some money. He put these into the bag, too. He stole many things from the house and put them into his bag.

　　The bag was soon full. The thief put it over his shoulder (肩膀) and walked to the door.

　　He opened the door and looked out. There was no one there.

　　“What are you doing?” a voice (聲音) said.

　　The thief jumped high into the air and dropped his bag. Then he ran out of the house and down the road.

　　“What are you doing?” the voice said again. “Pretty Polly, Hello, Goodbye, What are you doing?”

1．What is a parrot? It is ________.

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A．a(chǎn) kind of bird that can be trained to talk.

B．a(chǎn) baby that can speak

C．a(chǎn)n animal that can fly

D．a(chǎn) robot (機(jī)器人) that can speak

2．The thief got into the room ________.

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A．through the bedroom window

B．by breaking the door open

C．to catch the parrot

D．by the sitting room window

3．The thief ran out of the house ________.

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A．because he knew a policeman had seen him

B．because he heard some people talking

C．with a bag full of nice things

D．because he was very frightened (害怕)

4．What did the thief take out of the house? ________.

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A．A gold watch

B．Some money

C．Nothing

D．Bowls and Vases

5．In which order (次序) did things happen in the story?

a．One evening the man went out.

b．The thief stole many things and put them in his bag.

c．Once a man had a beautiful parrot.

d．The thief was so frightened that he ran away.

e．A thief came and broke into the house.

f．Suddenly the parrot started talking.

g．He talked to it every day.

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　　A man and his wife wanted to move to a new house. They searched for a long time and finally found an advertisement for a nice one. They looked at the house together and almost decided to buy it, but they wanted to learn more about the neighborhood first. Would the neighbors be nice or not? An old man was walking in front of the house, so they went to him to get some information.

　　“Sir,” said the husband, “my wife and I are looking at this house. It seems excellent and we may buy it. But first, before our final decision, could you please give us some information about the neighborhood? What are the people around here like? We want to avoid trouble if we can.”

　　The old man looked at the couple, and then replied with a question. “What type of people live near you in your present home?”

　　“They're terrible,” the husband replied. “They're always causing arguments (爭(zhēng)論) and making trouble. We decided to move mainly to avoid them.”

　　“Well, don't move here”, warned the old man, “You'll find the same type of people here.”

　　The couple thanked the old man for his warning and drove off to continue their search (尋找). Just then a second couple drove up.

　　“Sir,” the second husband said, “could you please give us some information about the neighbors here? We may want to buy this house.”

　　“How are the neighbors around your present home?”

　　“They're excellent,” was the husband's reply. “Everybody is helpful, friendly and cheerful. We never have any trouble. It will be terrible to have to move away from them.”

　　“They're cheerful, eh?” said the old man. “Well, you'll find the same type of people here.”

1．The old man was ________.

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2．Why did the first couple want to buy a new house?

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A．To have an excellent house.

B．To learn from the neighborhood.

C．To get away from their neighbors.

D．To have a permanent (永久的) home.

3． The second man and his wife were ________.

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4．What is the main idea of this passage?

A．People should not ask questions.

B．Do not rely on old men.

C．Nice people can be happy in any place.

D．It is hard to find good neighbors.

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　　It seems that the cities in future will have to change. Because the world's population is increasing (增長(zhǎng)), there will be more people in the cities of tomorrow.

　　It may not be possible for any family to live in a house with land around it. There will not be enough space for this. An answer to this problem of space may be the skyscraper city (摩天城). The highest building in the world today is in New York. It's about 450 metres high. The skyscraper cities would be about seven times higher.

　　In this skyscraper city about 250,000 people would live. Nearly a million people could live in four of these great buildings. Each skyscraper city would have four towns in it and each town would have ten villages. They would live, work and spend their free time in them. They wouldn't need to leave the city unless they wanted to. They would be able to move about in the city by a transport (交通) controlled (控制) by computers.

1．What's the passage mainly about?

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2．In the future it may not be possible for any family to live in a house with ________ around it.

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3．Each skyscraper city would have ________ villages.

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4．Which of the following sentences is not true?

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A．The people in the future will live in the skyscraper city.

B．They need to buy anything in the other skyscraper city.

C．They wouldn't need to leave the city unless they wanted to.

D．People would be able to move about in the city by a transport system.

5．The skyscraper cities would be about seven times ________ than the highest building in the world today.

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　　Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, “If anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea.”

　　“OK. Dad,” said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.

　　Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.

　　The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, “Where is your father?” The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, “No more.”

　　The man was very surprised. He asked, “No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?”

　　“Burnt yesterday evening.”

1．Mr Brown told his son that ________.

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A．he would be away from home for four days

B．he would be back in seven days

C．he would be back in a month

D．he liked a cup of tea

2．Mr Brown wrote the words down on ________.

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3．A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.

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4．The man was very surprised because ________.

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A．he thought the child's father was dead

B．the child didn't ask him to sit down

C．the child gave him a cup of tea

D．he couldn't find that piece of paper

5．What was burnt? ________.

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　　Long, long ago, there lived a fisherman in a village near the sea. One day the fisherman set out in a small boat. After he had got a good place for fishing, he threw a long rope with many hooks (釣) into the water. Before he had finished doing it, it became very heavy. He thought it seemed too heavy to be a fish, and began to draw (拉) the rope.

　　When the hooks came out of the water, he was surprised, for the hooks were holding some golden chains (金鏈). When he pulled them, more and more golden chains came out. Soon there was a large pile of the golden chains in his boat.

　　“I shall be very rich,” he said to himself. “I can sell the chain for a lot of money. With the money I shall buy a new boat and some new nets. I shall build a house. I shall be the richest man in the world.”

　　He went on drawing more golden chains. But he felt so pleased that he did not notice what was happening to his boat. It began to sink (沉) . As he was pulling the golden chains, the boat sank into the sea. He lost not only all the golden chains but also his boat and his life.

1．The fisherman began to pull the rope ________.

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2．It was so heavy that the fisherman thought ________.

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3．To his surprise ________.

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A．the rope became very heavy

B．there were a large golden chains on the hooks

C．there were some golden chains on the hooks

D．he caught a very big fish

4．The fisherman said to himself that ________.

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A．he would be very rich

B．he would buy a new boat and some new nets

C．he would buy a house

D．both A and B

5．He did not notice the boat begin to sink because ________.

A．he was thinking of money and was too happy

B．he was very tired

C．he went on pulling the hooks

D．he didn't mind what to happen