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\the street. That seems very foolish.\
\there. But here in the street there is more light and I can see more clearly. Notes: ring 戒指 gold 金,黄金
1. One day a man went to the street to buy a gold ____. A. watch B. clock C. ring D. ear-ring #C
2. He dropped the ring ____ the house. A. inside B. outside C. in front of D. beside #A
3. At first he looked for the ring in the ____. A. street B. shop C. road D. house #D
4. Next he looked for the ring in the ____. A. room B. garden C. house D. street #D
5. Do you think that the man was ____? Yes, I do. A. clever B. foolish C. bright D. wise #B 25.
Memory
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child, and
some
children - like boys and girls who live abroad with their parents - seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In school it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.
A man's mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photos not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, there is much to do before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to be done before we can keep a picture forever in our mind.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
1. We usually begin to learn a language by ____ it first. A. speaking B. seeing C. hearing D. feeling #C
2. If you have a good ____, you'll have less difficulty in learning something. A. photo B. picture C. memory D. camera #C
3. The children who live abroad with their parents can learn two languages more easily, because ____. A. they are very clever
B. they have good teachers
C. they have more chances to use these languages D. they have a better life #C
4. We know that one's mind ____ a camera. A. likes B. is liked C. will like D. is like #D
5. A camera takes photos of what can be ____. A. seen B. felt C. heard D. smelt #A
26. Oil
Almost everyone in the world uses oil in some way. Cars, buses, planes and many trains and ships also need oil. Even our bicycles need oil. Indeed the whole world would stop if there was no oil.
Today there is a growing need for oil in the world. So people are looking for it everywhere. They look for oil in deserts, in the mountains and under the sea. Quite often they find nothing, but the search for oil always goes on. What are the largest oil producers in the world? The U.S, the U.S.S.R., and countries of the Middle East. But China is catching up fast. Before liberation we used to buy nearly all our oil from the U.S. Many foreign people said China was \country. Today everyone agrees that China is rich in oil. Our oil will not only meet the great need in our country, but also be sold to other countries. Notes: producer 生产国 used to 过去常常 U.S.S.R 苏联
1. We can ____ without any oil. A. run a bus or a ship B. run planes or trains C. run no machines D. ride a bike #C
2. \A. oil is growing more and more
B. today people need more oil than before C. people need less oil now D. oil is needed to grow #B
3. Oil can be found ____. A. under the ground B. under the sea C. under the deserts D. ABC #D
4. ____ was once said to be poor in oil. A. U.S. B. U.S.S.R C. China
D. The middle East #C
5. People search for oil everywhere, ____. A. and oil can be found easily B. but oil is very difficult to find C. but can find nothing
D. and oil is growing more and more #B 27.
A Golden Watch
Mr Mike was a young man. He was not very rich. One day he went into a watch shop to buy a nice-looking watch for his girl friend, Rose. He fixed his eyes on a nice golden watch, and decided to buy it. The shop assistant took the watch
out, and asked for three hundred pounds for it. Just then, a boy of about fifteen suddenly rushed over and grasped the watch from the assistant's hand. The assistant
hurried out to catch the boy. But it was too late, the boy had disappeared among
the street people very quickly.
On the way home, Mike met the boy, who would sell him the gold watch for only one hundred pounds. \from
the shop. And he asked for much less money than that in the shop.\Mike thought
to himself. So he paid the boy and took the watch home.
The next day, Mike gave the golden watch to Rose, and told her all about the watch.
Rose looked at the watch for a while, then, laughed loudly, \a fool!\and the boy must have planned the whole thing together!\
1. The shop assistant said the price of the watch was ____. A. 100 pounds B. 200 pounds C. 300 pounds
D. less than 100 pounds #C
2. The shop assistant must have known ____ very well. A. Mike B. the boy C. Rose D. nobody #B
3. The boy would sell Mike the watch for ____. A. 200 pounds B. 300 pounds
C. as much money as that in the shop D. much less money than that in the shop
#D
4. In fact, the watch was worth ____. A. 100 pounds B. 300 pounds
C. just a little money D. much more money #C
5. In this story, who really lost something? A. The shop assistant B. Mike C. The boy D. Rose #B
stion.
Passage 1
Television has opened windows in everybody’s life. Young men will never again go to war as they did in 1914. Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle. And the result has been a general dislike of war, and perhaps more interest in helping those who suffer from all the terrible things that have been shown on the screen.
Television has also changed politics. The most distant areas can now follow state affairs, see and hear the politicians before an election. Better informed, people are more likely to vote, and so to make their opinion count.
Unfortunately, television’s influence has been extremely harmful to the young. Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world; that TV advertisements lie to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless. They believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. All educators agree that the “television generations” are more violent than their parents and grandparents.
Also, the young are less patient. Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and interesting, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures; to read a book that requires thinking; to listen to a teacher who doesn’t do funny things like the people on children’s programs. And they expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen, or thirty minutes. That’s the time it takes on the screen.