5．The business lesson the author gets from selling shoes is C．never be afraid of taking risks
I was 15 when I walked into McCarley Bookstore and began to look over the titles of the books on the shelves．The man behind the counter，the owner of the bookstore，asked me if 1 would like ajob．…仿真4打工--攒学费--找到自己的价值 ……My working experience in McCarley Bookstore helped me find a good sense of the world，and most importantly，it helped me find a good sense of myself．
1．How did the author get the job in McCarley Bookstore? A．He happened to walk into the shop and got it by chance． 2.According to the author，selling books was one of the most satisfying job expedences，because B．it helped him understand the world and himself 3．After he helped the fearful lady looking for books on cancer，the author was_ D.proud of himself 4．The author decided to help the poor boy by B．persuading his boss to let him do the story on TV 5．The main reason that the author thinks his present job is the same as the one in the bookstore is C. it helps people make sense of the world
In the United States，30 percent of the grown-up population has a“weight problem”．To many people，the cause is clear：we eat too much．But scientific experiments do little to support this idea．……
…the more the man ran．the greater body fat he lost．The more he ran，the greater was his need for food．Thus，those who fan the most ate the most，yet lost the greatest amount of body fat仿真7美国30%的成人都有体重问题-胖人吃少运动也少--瘦人比胖人吃得多但运动量更大
1．What kind of physical problem do many grown-up Americans have? C．They are too fat. _
2．Based on the information given in this article，suppose there are 500 grown-up Americans，about how many of them have a weight problem? D．150．
3．Are there scientific facts to support that eating too much is the cause of the“weight problem”?_ C．There are hardly any scientific facts to support this． 4．Compared with the grown-up Americans today，the Americans of 1910 A．ate more food and had more physical activities 5．What have some modem medical and scientific researchers reported to us?_ A．Fat people eat less food and are less active.
I used to think education was the most important thing in my life．Recently my attitude has begun to changed，……….．
……I still believe that working my hardest does make me happy. I will still stay on in college，but I will not allow it to shelter me from the real world．仿17: 从前我认为教育是在我的生活最重要的事,但不能与现实世界隔离。
1．From this passage，we know tha the author__ C．realizes that it is more important to really develop oneself than just to store knowledge . 2．By saying that she is“a top junior student\，the author means that she is__ A．a student in her third year in college 3．The author thinks the awards she has received__ D．don't necessarily reflect her real self ______
4．The author fears that she will be of no use to society，mainly because__ B she does not know how to communicate with others 5．Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage to find a part time job? D．She wants to get some shelter from the real world．
Insomnia or sleeplessness is a common complaint of women as they enter into menopause(更年期)．Insomnia…….. Sleep hygiene is directed at changing bad sleep habits．……The recommendations are：
·Avoid caffeine and alcohol in the evening,etc．仿19: 更年期的妇女.失眠. 失眠六种原因，安眠药剂量要最小 1. The word“insomnia”in the first paragraph means__ A．having trouble falling or staying asleep 2．How many possible causes of sleeplessness are mentioned in the second paragraph? B．Six．
3. The expression“second on the list”in the second paragraph means__ B. the second most important cause of sleeplessness 4．Concerning the use of sleeping pills，which of the following statements is true? D．Sleeping pills should be used in a very small amount．
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5．Which of the following does not fit with sleep hygiene? A．Making a rule to go to bed at a specific time every day.
In recent vears many countries of the world have been faced with the problem of how to make their workers more productive．…….if we succeed in making their jobs more interesting，they will neither want more money,nor will shorter work．ing hours be so important to them. 仿19许多国家面临如何使工人的生产效率更高. 多样化的工作方式? 工人自由去用他自己的方式做任务?生产线小型化？使他们的工作更有趣！ 1. According to the author，many factories of the world have been faced with the problem of__ B．how to increase productivity 2. Job variety can__ B.make the workers'life more pleasant．
3．It is not easy for the workers to get the freedom to do their job in their own way because___ C．modem machinery must be operated in a particular way ___. 4．According to experiments，if a car factory wants the workers to contribute more to the product they are making，it should__ B．change a large production line into many small ones
5．What is probably the best way to make the workers more productive，according to the author? B．Making jobs more interesting．
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John Parker is an English language teacher．He was always good at languages at school，so he decided to take his degrees in French and German …….He has also learned to get on with all kinds of people and to get used to different ways of life．He likes this way of life and has never regretted his decision to follow this career．仿11约翰帕克--语言方面天赋--在英国的一所中学教书两年—更喜欢用自己的母语（英语教外国人）--教过各种年龄、各个国家的男人和女人并感到有意义--选择了这个职业不后悔
1．From the passage，we know for sure that John Parker_ D．only worked in a secondary school for two years 2．John Parker enjoyed teaching adult students because C．he was more interested in teaching English than other languages 3．In the first paragraph，the sentence“．．．he met someone by chance．．．”means A．he met someone accidentally __ 4．The first sentence in the second paragraph“Since then he has specialized in this work．”means that John Parker has B．taken teaching Enghsh to foreigners as his only occupation 5．Which of the following statements is not true? C．John would never feel sorry if he kept his job as a secondary school teacher．____________．
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Lillian Hanson，a college student，expects to graduate in about two years．What makes Mrs Hanson different from her classmates is her age-73 years． …….At the beginning of a course in using the computer，the other students all stood up to give her a warm welcome when she introduced herself and explained why she was there and what her aims were. 仿5：丽丽安·汉森73岁高龄在大学学习27年--高中毕业时银行没借到钱直接去上大学--孩子长大她再一次上大学—在课堂上因年纪大手脚已经不像从前那样灵活--同学们知道她的经历在计算机课上都站起来热情的欢迎她。
1.Mrs Hanson couldn't go to college immediately after she graduated from high school because A．she hadn’t got enough money __. 2．Mrs Hanson wanted to borrow money from the bank C. to further her cducation at college ___ 3．In the college，what makes Mrs Hanson different from her classmates is C. that she is 73 years old __ 4．The computer students welcomed Mrs Hanson warmly because_ D．they were deeply moved by her spirit __ 5．Mrs Hanson is the sort of person who A．cares for study very much _________________________
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My mother raised me as best as she could， …. Her smile said，“My job is finally done．”练习1：（作者回忆）母亲打零工抚养我—我混入一帮凶悍的青年--三年的军役生活让我重思我的生活--觉得有愧于母亲--作消防员就职宣誓--母亲说“我的任务完成了。”
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1．From this story，we may guess that the East Side of New York must be a______ C．poor ______area 2．The author used to behave himself_____ D．badly__.
3．From the context，we understand that “odd jobs”in the first paragraph refer to jobs__ B．which are not regular or fixed． 4．In the first sentence of the,second paragraph．the author says．“It was lucky for me that...”The lucky experience he talks about here is his experience of_____ A. the three years of military service（军营生活）．
5. What is not true according to the passage? B．The author was surprised that he was accepted as a firefighter．
May you wish upon a thousand stars?May you catch a million fireflies?Get started with choosing a motorhome or a travel trailer．………You will enrich your kids’lives and become closer as a family．”仿3：当你以一个旅游者的眼光来看待生活的话，你能学到很多。机动房车--旅行和孩子们的学习结合--丰富孩子们的生活,一家人也会变得更亲近。 1.From the passage, we know for sure that Don and Mary are C．husband and wife 2．In the third paragraph．when Mary said．“So we decided to live in the home we love best，”the home she refers to is actually D．her motorhome 3．Which of the following sentences do you think is most suitable to describe the education their children get，taking to the road?_ A．They leam a lot mole than ordinary school kids．_____
4．At the end of the fourth paragraph，the shortened word GPS stands for B．Global Positioning System（全球定位系统） 5．The family consider themselves lucky because A．their life is rich and they stay closer to each other
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No country in the world has more daily newspapers than the USA．……uncovered political scandals(丑闻)or crimes，for instance，the Watergate Affair. The newspapers drew the attention of the public to the fears of the Vietnam War．仿18: 美国的日报拥有量堪称世界之最.----美国报纸的特点
1．There are more daily newspapers in__ C．the USA than in Britain or Japan ______.
2．Most American newspapers try to entertain their readers because __ B．they have to compete（竞争） with television 3．Many American newspapers attract readers of different political persuasions by D.printing articles representing different political viewpoints_． 4.The word“press”in the second paragraph means_ D. newspapers． 5．This passage is mainly about__ A．the characteristics of American newspapers．
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Owning a web page sounds cool．You can be the master of the page，putting up your favorite hot sports，news，pop music and latest Hollywood movies，…… themselves should be well aware of the issue and resort to legal actions to solve the
problem．练习9：拥有自己的网页听上去很酷—但可导致个人隐私滥用—需要建立一个国家委员会制定网络规则--寻求法律途径解决这个问题
1．What is the danger of owning a web page of your own,according to the passage? B．Your personal data might be exposed. 2．In the second paragraph，in the sentence“It will be a headache in the future”，“It”refers to_ D．the individual privacy abuse by net firms ____． 3．According to Zhang Jing，the problem of junk emails could get worse unless___ B．laws are established ___．
4．From the passage we understand that__A.it is illegal for net firms to sell netzenspersonal data to other firms to get a profite 5. To protect peoples privacy on the Internet, we should_C．be well aware of the issue and resort to legal actions__.
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Paper was invented by the Chinese in the first century AD．Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100．Scandinavia--which now makes a great deal of the world’S paper--did not begin tO make it until 1500．…….ever beds can be made of paper．But the latest in paper making seems to be paper houses．( 仿真2：纸的发明—世界纸业—纸的用途) 1．Where was paper invented? A．In China．
2．Scandinavia began to make paper C．in l500________________．
3．Every four hundred copies of a forty-page newspaper will need B．one tree _________．
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4.All over the world,trees are being cut down ________than they are being planted．D. faster 5．The latest things made of paper are_ D．houses
PALO ALTO，California—“Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter，even if they do not change their…….. suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more，”Robinson said．练习1：儿童多看电视易发胖, 美国儿童每天看电视超过4小时，肥胖比例是20年前的两倍；看电视吃东西更多，消耗热量少。 1. The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that_ D．children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV 2．According to the passage，the time American children usually spend on watching TV__ A．is more than four hours a day. 3. The time the group of children in the study spent on TV viewing every day is Suggested to be about____ C．three hours . 4．Which one of the following is fight?_____ B. Children usually eat more while watching TV____ 5．Why can watching TV increase kidsweight according to the passage?______ D．Both A and B__
People travel a lot with Heaven Air because they know they will get what they want They want to go quickly and safely across the land，across the sea or right across the world，
Heaven Air is second to none. 仿8: 介绍天堂航空的航班；快且安全；到巴黎一周内任何时间都行；大小城市都去； 1．Heaven Air is the name of_ B．an airline ___．
2. Traveling with Heaven Air is_ D．quick and safe __．
3．Heaven Air can take you to Paris_ C．any time in a week __． 4. Most flights of Heaven Air go to C．both big and small cities _
5. According to the advertisement，Heaven Air believes it is D．the best in the world _．
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Robert was born in a small town in England．His father has a farm and can supply him enough money to university where he's studying law．The young man studies hard and hopes to be a famous lawyer．
……To his surprise，it was rewritten．It said，“Your uncle has touched your wallet!” 仿1：Robert出生于英格兰小镇;其父是农厂主富裕；英国客人认为那里有许多小偷；Rober写纸条“猪偷了我的钱包”，小偷写“你叔叔摸了你钱包”。 1 ．Robert can study in the university because B．his father is a rich farmer ． 2．The English visitor thought A．there were a lot of thieves in the city ．
3．Robert brought his money out of his wallet because D．he was afraid to lose his wallet 4．RoBert put the note in the wallet because_ B．he hoped to make fun of the thieves _ 5.In fact_ A．the thief made fun of Robert
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Suppose you work in a big firm and find English very important for your job because you often deal with foreign
businessmen．Now you are looking for a place where you can improve your English，especially your spoken English. For further information call 67432308．练习10：你正在找一个能提高你的英语水平的地方;上课时间，地点，费用
1．You work from 9．00 am to 4．30pm every day．Which schools will you choose?___ B．Global English Centre and the International House___ 2．The 21st Century is different from the other three schools in that_D．it requires an entrance examination__（入学考试）． 3．You will probably prefer to go to the International House because it___ A．offers free sightseeing and social activities __. 4．If you take the evening programme at the International House，you will pay about__ D．1，000 yuan
5．If you want to take a 6-month special course in English for banking，you will probably choose__ C．Modern Language School
Some people think they have all answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities．Their answer is the bicycle，or“bike”． ……But Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes
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downtown．仿9: 有些人认为解决大城市汽车拥堵和污染的方法是自行车。“为建立更好的城市而骑车”协会认为如果有自行车专用道, 就会有更多的人骑车; 但纽约并未划专用道，协会一直在为争取自行车专用道而奋斗。
1．According to the passage，bicycles D.are the solution to some city problems 2．The idea of special bicycle lanes is most favored by B．some bike riders ____． 3．“Bicycle lanes”in the third paragraph probably means C．special parts of the road for bicycle riders only
4．Whicn of the following is not true according to the passage?_ D．In New York City．many people use bikes as they have special lanes．
5．The best title for this passage is D．A Solution to Traffic Problem in New York
Snra Elmer came to Shanghai last July from the Netherlands，and will remain here for the next couple of Years…….He intended to work here for another two or three years，depending on the hotel仿16: 苏拉埃尔默来上海“假日客栈”的旅馆工作—他感到中国和欧洲区别是中国大学的课堂过于严肃—他发现中国人很友好—尽管讨厌他们随地吐痰这个坏毛病 1．From the passage. We know that Sura Elmer is__ A．a Dutch. 2 Sura Elmer came to Shanghai__ D．according to an agreement between the hotels in Shanghai and Amsterdam _． 3．Sura Elmeer's impression on his Chinese colleagues is that they_________than his colleagues in the Nether 1ands．B．aremole serious 4．In the second paragraph，the sentence， “?accommodation and meals ale freely available” means____ B．Sura Elmer eats and sleeps in the hotel flee of charge. 5．One thing that Sura Elmer dislikes in China is__ C．people spit on the ground ____
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Today,computers are a huge and fast-moving field of technology．Smaller，more powerful and userfriendly equipment is developed almost daily…….He said．“Theres no way to stop it technically—but the Internet is a mirror of mankind．If we dont like what we see in the mirror，then touching up the mirror is not the answer．”练习7：今天，计算机技术是一个巨大的、快速发展的领域。查尔斯.巴比奇被称计算机之父—过去代计算机没有内存--保密是当今网络面临的主要问题之一
1．According to the passage，as early as___ B．almost two hundred years ago ___,people started trying to build a computer 2．According to the passage，the computers we use today are different from those old huge counting machines mainly in that______ D．they have memories ____．
3. What makes it possible for a computer to read the data? A．The data has to be turned into an electronic code of small on-off signals．
4．Dr．Vinton Cerf______ D．never expected the internet could be so popular ____. 5．Dr．Vinton Ceff compared the Internet to a mirror．When he said，“If we dont like what we see in the mirror，then touching up the mirror is not the answer．”he probably meant that_____ C．what we should do is to change peoples behaviour____.
To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains．But actually the am- brella was not invented as protection against rain．Its first use was as a shade(遮光物)against the sun!............练习4：伞可能是中国人发明的，伞曾经是荣誉和地位的象征，首先用伞来挡雨工具的是古罗马，本段主要讲伞的历史和用途。 ……until the 20th century that womens umbrellas began to be made，in a whole variety of colours． 1．According to this passage，the umbrella was probably first invented______ A．in ancient China __.
2. Which of the following statements is not true about the umbrella?__ C．The umbrella changed much in style in the 18th century. 3．A sffange feature of the umbrellas use is that it was once used as_____ B．a symbol of honour and power ___ 4．In Europe．the umbrella was first used against the rain___ C．in Rome ___．
5．This passage talks mainly about_____ D．the history and use of the umbrella ___．
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women．During the twentieth century there has been a
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