閱讀理解

　　Jeanne Calment, a French woman, became a record breaker on October 17, 1995．When at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days.

　　Jeanne Calment lives in a small old people's home in the south of France, her husband, her only child and her grandson have all died. She is nearly blind and deaf and is always in a wheel-chair, but her doctor describes her as being “more like a 90-year-old in good health than someone of 120”. She still has a lively sense of humor. When asked on her 120th birthday what she expected of the future. she replied, “A very short one. ”She also remarked that she thought the God Lord had forgotten all about her.

　　So what is the key to a long life? According to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three important factors. Jeanne Calment has followed two of the tips. She has always eaten a healthy diet, and she used to do exercises every day until she broke her leg at the age of 115．

　　However, until recently she drank two glasses of strong red wine a day, and she does smoke (now only a little). Besides, Jeanne Calment might have got very good genes from her parents. His father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to 86.

　　A local lawyer bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money every year until her death. It must have seemed a good move at the time, but so far the lawyer has paid her at least three times the value of the house. Every year on her birthday Jeanne Calment sends him a card saying, “Sorry, I'm still alive! ”

1．Jeanne Calment became a very famous woman on October 17, 1995 because ________ .

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A．her age was almost the same as that of an old Japanese man

B．she was a famous sports woman and a world record holder

C．she set a new world record in the age of human beings

D．she lived longer than her husband. her son and grandson

2．How does Jeanne Calment feel about her old age?

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A．She is upset and unhappy.

B．She is cheerful and humorous.

C．She would like to live much longer.

D．She feels she is going to die very soon.

3．The text seems to suggest that Jeanne Calment owes her good health and long life to ________ .

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A．smoking only a little every day

B．neither smoking nor drinking

C．a(chǎn)lways drinking two glasses of strong red wine a day and never smoking

D．the good genes from her parents, a healthy diet and some exercise

4．The reason why Jeanne Calment said “Sorry, I'm still alive” to the local lawyer every year on her birthday is that ________ .

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A．she had an agreement with the lawyer when she was 80

B．the lawyer has not paid her enough rent yet

C．the lawyer has paid her much more money than the value of the house

D．the house she sold to the lawyer isn't worth the money he has already paid

Once there was an 11-year-old boy who went fishing with his father in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. On the day before bass (巴斯魚) season opened, they were fishing early in the evening, catching other fish with worms. Then the boy tied on a small silver lure (魚餌) and put it into the lake. Suddenly he felt that something very big pulling on the lure. His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully brought the fish beside the bank. Finally he lifted the tired fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a bass.

The boy and his father looked at the big fish. The father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 pm – two hours before the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.

“Dad!” cried the boy, “There will be other fish,” said his father. “Not as big as this one,” cried the boy. He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were in sight in the moonlight. He looked again at his father.

Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he had caught the fish, the boy could tell from his father’s voice that the decision couldn’t be changed. He threw the huge bass into the black water. The big fish disappeared. The boy thought that he would never again see such a big fish.

That was 34 years ago. Today the boy is successful architect in New York City. He often takes his own son and daughters to fish at the same place.

And he was right. He has never again caught such a large fish as the one he got that night long ago. But he does see that same fish … again and again … every time he has an ethical (倫理的，道德的) decision to make. For, as his father had taught him, ethics are simple matters of right and wrong. It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult.

41．  What happened when the big fish turned out to be a bass?

A. The boy cooked the big fish.

B. The boy threw the bass back into the water willingly.

C. The father lit a match in order to check the time.

D. They worried other fishermen may discover what they had done.

42．  From the text we know that the father _________.

A. didn’t love his son  B. always disagreed with his son

C. disliked the huge fish                             D. was firm and stubborn

43．  The successful architect went fishing with his children at the same place because _________.

A. they might catch a big fish there             B. he was taught a moral lesson there

C. it was a most popular fishing spot   D. their children enjoyed fishing there

44．  What does the story imply?

A. It is easy to say something, but difficult to do.

B. An ethical decision is always easy to make.

C. It’s hard to tell right from wrong sometimes

D. Fishing can help one to make right decisions.

閱讀理解

　　“Man cannot live by bread alone,” said the proverb. But he needs bread in order to live. I am a baker, not because I can make a lot of money, nor because it is an easy life, but because I enjoy my work, and I can earn enough to live comfortably without too much worry. I make cakes; I am proud to say that they are quite famous in the neighborhood and my customers are always satisfied. Many housewives have to go out to work these days, and they are glad to come to our shop for cakes which look and taste just like those that their mothers used to make at home. I heard one man (his wife always buys my cakes) talking proudly about his wife's cooking. “We never eat cakes bought from a shop,” he said.

　　My father was a baker, too, and my grandfather before him. But they did all the hard work by hand, while we have machines which work more quickly and efficiently than men. In the bakery(面包房), we still prepare the dough(面團(tuán)) for the bread at night, mixing the flour and the yeast(酵母) with water by machinery instead of by hand. We keep it at a fixed temperature. At five o'clock in the morning, the actual work begins. Two men watch as a machine cuts off pieces of the dough, and weighs them to the correct size for a loaf of bread. The men quickly shape these pieces by hand, and put them into tins which have already been prepared by another machine. A moving belt carries these along very slowly in the direction of the oven, so that even before the actual cooking begins, the dough has risen and the tins are half full. The oven is filled, the door is shut, and then the only thing left to do is to wait for the bread to cook. The finished loaves are larger still, of course, brown and crusty. They smell delicious and they taste even better.

1．The baker enjoys his work because ________.

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A．he doesn't have to work very hard

B．he has no financial problems

C．his cakes and bread are famous

D．his shop is comfortable

2．The man talked so proudly about the cakes he ate at home because ________.

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A．he didn't know his wife bought their cakes from the baker's

B．his wife made as tasteful bread as his mother

C．his wife learnt from the baker and made wonderful cakes

D．the cakes he ate at home were not bought from the baker's

3．What was the baker's grandfather according to the passage?

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A．He was a laborer doing hard work by hand.

B．He was a baker who did his job by hand.

C．He used to be a baker before his son was born.

D．The writer doesn't tell us what he was.

4．According to the passage, the dough for the bread was ________.

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A．prepared as early as five o'clock in the morning

B．prepared by two men with the help of some machines

C．kept at a place with warm temperature

D．kept at a place where the temperature was constant

5．From what the baker said, we can infer that the correct size of the pieces of the dough of his bread cut off by machines was ________.

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A．smaller than half size of the tins

B．a(chǎn) little larger than the size of the tins

C．half as large as the full size of the tins

D．exactly as large as the size of the tins

第二部分閱讀理解
Can you imagine a classroom which misses the one thing that’s long been considered a necessary part to reading and writing? Paper. No notebooks, no textbooks, no test paper. Nor are there any pencils or pens, which always seem to use up ink at the critical(關(guān)鍵的) moment.
Such a “paperless classroom” is one that more and more schools are trying to get.　　
Students never do any handwriting in the class. Instead, they use specially-designed computers. The teacher downloads texts from Internet libraries and sends them to every student’s personal computer.　　
Having computers also means that students can use the Internet. They can look up information on any subject they’re studying, from maths to social science.　　
A middle school teacher Judy Harrell in Florida, US, described how her class used the Web to learn about the war in Iraq in 2003.　　
“We could touch every side of the country through different sites: from the forest to refuges(難民營(yíng)),” she said. “Using a book that’s three or four years old is impossible.”　　
And exams can go online too. At a high school in Tennessee, US, students take tests on their own computers. The teacher records the grades on the network for everyone to see and then copies them to his own electronic grade book.　　
A paperless classroom is a big step towards reducing the waste of paper. High school teacher Stephanie Sorrell in Kentucky, US, said she used to give about 900 pieces of paper each week to each student.　　
“Think about the money and trees we could save with the computers,” she said.　　
But, with all this technology, there’s always the risk that the machines will break down. So, in case of a power failure or technical problems, paper textbooks are still widely available for these hi-tech students.
41．What does the underlined sentence “use up ink at the critical moment” in the 1st paragraph mean?
A．Pens use ink, while pencils don’t.
B．Pens get lost easily at any moment.
C．Pens may have little or no ink at the key moment.
D．Pens may not write well at the critical moment.
42．What did the middle school teacher show while using the example of her class?
A．the Web could take them everywhere.
B．the Web taught them a lot.
C．the Web is a good tool for information.
D．the Web, better than the textbooks, can give the latest information.
43．What does the phrase “break down” in the last paragraph mean?
　 A．Break up.        B．Stop working.       C．Fall down.     D．Lose control.