第三部分 閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）

A teenager says he convinced the White House that he was Iceland’ s president and managed to schedule a call with George W.Bush , but was found out before he got to talk to the US president.

  “My call was transferred around a few times until I got hold of Bush’s secretary and managed to book a call meeting with Bush the following Monday evening ,” Vifill Atlaso, 16, told Reuters.

Several Icelandic police turned up at his door two days later---the day of the planned call---and took him in for questioning.

“They told me the CIA had called the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police and asked if the police could try and find out where I received that phone number from,” said Atlason.

The teenager said he was unable to recall where he had discovered the telephone number of the White House.

 “I know I’v had it on my phone card for at least four years now and that an Icelandic friend gave it to me, but I don’t remember who,”he said.

 At a White House news conference on Monday, Bush’s spokeswoman Dana Perino said her understanding was that Atlason had called a public line “that anybody can call”, according to a transcript(記錄).

 Jon Buartmarz, Chief Superintendent at Iceland’s national police headquarters, said Icelandic police had not spoken to their US counterparts about the matter. He declinced(拒絕) to say how police were tipped off (通告) about Atlason’s call.

 “As far as we’re concerned, there will not be any further investigation, and I don’t know if the American government is taking any action because of this,”he said.

1.According to the passage, when did Atlason call the White House ?

   A.On Friday      B. On Saturday     C. On Sunday    D. On Monday

2.What does the underlined “it ”refer to ?

   A.The telephone number of the White House.

   B.The telephone number of his friend.

   C.A White House news conference .

   D.CIA

3.How did Atlason get the telephone number of the White House ?

   A.From a newspaper   

   B.From Bush’s secertary

   C.From an Icelandic friend  

   D.By calling the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police.

4.What is the main idea of the article ?

   A.An Icelandic teenager tricks the the White House

   B.CIA found out the truth of a trick.

   C.A teenager pretended to be the Icelandic president.

   D.The telephone number of the Whiite House is known by public.

People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.

About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.

The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

1. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ______.

A. the hunters wanted to see the pictures    

B. the painters were animal lovers

C. the painters wanted to show imagination

D. the pictures were thought to be helpful

2. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons      EXCEPT that _______.

   A. the former was easy to write    

B. there were fewer signs in the former    

C. the former was easy to pronounce

D. each sign stood for only one sound

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet.

B. The Egyptians liked to write comic-strip stories.

C. The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.    

D. The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians.

4. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ___________.

A. should be made comprehensible             B. should be made interesting

C. are of much use in our life                  D. have disappeared from our life

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 The professor said he could talk on _____ interested the audience.

A. any topic         B. which topic  

C whichever topic   D. the topic he thought it                          

. You should remember the cause and avoid it the next time you _______the same situation.

A. come out                      B. come about           C. come up                     D.come across

. My suggestion is that Tom ______________ there on time.

A. is                            B. be                C. will be                  D. has been

. ___________ she was chosen made us very happy.

A. What                              B. That                  C. Why                        D. How

The managing director of this department took the ______ for the accident, although it was not really his fault.

A. guilt                      B. response                C. blame                    D. accusation

.     Take an active part in sports or other activities you enjoy ____ you can meet various kinds of people.

A. what                        B. when                              C. that                          D. where

      Most people ____ material possessions.

A. chase away    B. chase after             C. chase about           D. chase down