四、閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）

閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Is there anything more important than health? I don’t think so. “Health is the greatest wealth,” wise people say. You can’t be good at your studies or work well when you are ill.

If you have a headache, toothache, backache, earache or bad pain in the stomach, if you complain of  a bad cough, if you run a high temperature and have a bad cold ,or if you suffer from high or low blood pressure, I think you should go to the doctor.

The doctor will examine your throat, feel your pulse, test your blood pressure, take your temperature, sound  your heart and lungs, test your eyes, check your teeth or have your chest X-rayed. After that he will advise some treatment, or some medicine. The only thing you have to do is to follow his advice.

Speaking about doctor’s advice, I can’t help telling you a funny story.

An old gentleman came to see the doctor. The man was very ill. He told the doctor about his weakness, memory loss and serious problems with his heart and lungs. The doctor examined him and said there was no medicine for his disease.

He told his patient to go to a quiet place for a month and have a good rest. He also advised him to eat a lot of meat, drink two glasses of red wine every day and take long walks. In other words, the doctor advised him to follow the rule:  “Eat at pleasure, drink with measure and enjoy life as it is.” The doctor also said that if the man wanted t be well again, he shouldn’t smoke more than one cigarette a day.

A month later the gentleman came into the doctor’s office. He looked cheerful and happy. He thanked the doctor and said that he had never felt a healthier man.

“But you know, doctor,” he said, “ it’s not easy to begin smoking at my age.”

1 The writer thinks that _______

A. health is more important than wealth

B. work is as important as studies

C. medicine is more important than pleasure

D. nothing is more important than money

2. The underlined part “he had never felt a healthier man ” means ______

A. he was feeling better than ever         B. he wasn’t a healthy man

C. he was feeling worse than before       D. he will be well again

3. From the last sentence of the passage, we learn the man ____ before the doctor told him not to smoke more than one cigarette a day.

A. was a heavy smoker                     B. didn’t smoke so much

C. didn’t smoke                           D. began to learn to smoke

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The doctor usually tests his/her blood pressure when a person is ill.

B. The man told the doctor he couldn’t remember things.

C. The man thanked the doctor.

D. The man didn’t follow the doctor’s advice.

5.The author’s purpose to write the passage is to

A. tell people how to keep fit

B. tell people what a doctor will do if you are ill

C.tell a funny story about doctor

D.tell people that the doctor cured the old gentleman’s disease

The Antarctic is actually a desert. It’s the only continent on the earth without a river or lake.

The Antarctic is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of snow falls each year. That is less than half an inch of water. The times that much water falls in parts of the Sahara.

The little snow that falls never melts. It continues to pile up deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about 80 feet deep it is turned to ice by the weight of the snow above it.

1. Antarctic is called a desert because it _______.

A. is sandy       B. is cold       C. has little water     D. is high

2. The snow there is very deep because it _______.

A. never stop falling          B. piles up year after year

C. never melts               D. falls often

3. The best title for the passage is ______.

A. Waterfall at the South Pole        B. The Antarctic ------An Ice Desert

C. Snowfall at the South Pole        D. The world’s Great Desert

------ I heard that as many as 100 people were killed in that coal mine accident?

------ Yes, ______ news came as ______ shock to us.

A. the ; /          B. the ; a         C. /; a        D. /; /

It was _______ great shock to the world that two Chinese astronauts orbited Earth for five days in ________ Shenzhou VI in October 2005.

A. 不填；不填                   B. the; the             C. a; the                D. 不填；the

 Can you __________ me 5 minutes ? I want your advice.

A. give      B. draw      C. spare      D. lose

 The men will have to wait all day _____ the doctor works faster..

A. if                        B. unless                C. whether                D. that

. --- Would you like to join us in the game?

--- _______, but I have something important to attend to.

Computers Help Fire Fighters

In Kansas City, Missouri, a computer helps fire fighters. The computer contains information about every one of the 35000 street addresses in the city. When fire fighters answer a call, the computer will give them important about the burning building, its position and almost all the ways of helping fire fighters with the problems facing them. For example, it can give medical information about invalids living in a burning building. With this information, the fire fighters can take special care to find these sick persons and carry them away quickly and safely.

The Kansas City computer system also keeps a medical record of each of the city’s 9000 fire fighters. The kind of information is especially useful when a hospital can treat the injured. With this information, doctors at the hospital can treat the injured fire fighters more quickly and easily.

1. Missouri is most likely the name of ___________.

A. a well—known river                   B. the head of the fire fighters

C. a state in the USA                     D. a new kind of computer

2. The computer can give ______________.

A. useful and useless information about the city

B. useful information about everyone living in the city

C. useful information about every street address in the city

D. information about every town around the city

3. In this passage the word “invalid” means a person __________.

A. who is badly injured               B. who is helped by firemen

C. who wants to be a firemen          D. who has become weak through illness or injury

4. If injured, the firemen will ___________.

A. be treated at once with the computer’s help    B. hardly get any treatment

C. ask doctors and nurses for help             D. be taken to hospital by the computer

American and British researchers have proved that judgments based on how someone looks are important. They found that appearance tells a lot about your personality.

The researchers included Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University in California, and Simine Vazire of Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. They were joined by Sam Gosling of the University of Texas at Austin and Peter J. Rentfrow of Britain's Cambridge University. The results of their study were published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in December, 2009.

The subjects（接受實(shí)驗(yàn)者）were asked to judge the personality of people they had never met. The judges examined pictures of one hundred twenty-three people. The people in the photographs had been told how to stand. They looked into the cameras without showing their feelings. The same people also were photographed the way they themselves wanted to stand. Those who wanted to smile could smile.

Then the judges attempted to decide what the people were like. The researchers compared the judges’ opinions with the way the people who were photographed thought of themselves. Three people who knew those in the photographs well also provided information about their personality and behavior.

The judges looked for ten qualities in the people in the pictures. The qualities included extroversion (having a confident character and enjoying the company of other people) and self-esteem (being satisfied with oneself).

The judges also looked for signs of loneliness, conscientiousness（正義）, emotional control and religious and political beliefs.

The researchers said the judges could identify some personalities even when people were pictured in controlled positions. They could recognize personalities like extroversion and self-esteem. But it was hard for the judges to decide about most other personalities under the controlled conditions.

When the people smiled and stood naturally, however, judging their personalities was easy. Then the judges’ choices were correct for nine of the ten personalities.

Researcher Laura Nauman said that we live in the world where first impressions are important.

1. According to the passage, who were the judges?

A. The researchers of the study.                        B. The subjects in the study.

C. Parents and other adults.                               D. People in the photographs.

2. Which of the following qualities could the judges identify even when people were pictured in controlled positions?

A. Extroversion                   B. Religious beliefs              C. Loneliness         D. Emotional control

3. We can infer from the passage that ____________

A. the study was carried out by four researchers from America.

B. in the study126 people were photographed for judges to decide their personalities.

C. the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is an official publication（出版物）.

D. it was hard to recognize personalities when the people were pictured with natural looks.

4. What will the author most probably talk about next?

A. The quality of the judges.                      B. The personalities of Laura Nauman.

C. Signs of emotional control.                   D. The reason why one’s appearance is important.

__________ I could say a word, she had stormed out of the room.

       A. Before                            B. When                       C. After                        D. Until