阅读理解 (每小题2分,共40分)AAn Englishman, a Frenchman and a Russian were discussing happiness. "Happiness," said the Englishman, "Happiness is when you return home tired after work, yet find your slippers(拖鞋) warming by the fire.""You English have no romance," said the Frenchman. "Happiness is when you go on a business trip, meet a pretty girl who entertains(招待) you -then afterwards you part(分手)without regrets.""You are both wrong," said the Russian. "True happiness is when you are at home in bed and at 4:00 a.m., you hear a hammering at the door and outside stand the secret police, who say to you, 'Ivan ,Ivan, you are under arrest(逮捕)', and you say, 'Sorry, Ivan lives next door.'"51. The Englishman's happiness suggests that _______.A. he should have no time to warm his slippersB. he thinks it the most important to have slippersC. he enjoys the warmth of the familyD. he wants someone to warm his slippers52. What the Frenchman said means that _______.A. a man can be free to play with any pretty girl when possibleB. he wants to marry a girl he lovesC. the Englishman should have more romanceD. he is interested in going on a business trip53. The Russian thought that ________.A. both the Englishman and the Frenchman were not rightB. neither the Englishman nor Frenchman were wrongC. neither the Englishman nor the Frenchman were rightD. either the Englishman or the Frenchman were wrong54. The meaning of the Russian's words is that _______.A. he would like to have a good sleep at nightB. he will feel happy if his neighbor is arrestedC. he will feel afraid if anyone knocks at his door at nightD. he thinks it happiness to feel safe55. The best title for this story is "_______".A. How to Get Happiness B. Different Attitudes towards HappinessC. The Effect of Happiness D. The Importance of HappinessBBelieve it or not, if you do not use your arms or your legs for a long time, they become weak. When you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, and few of us know that it is just his own fault.Have you ever found that some people can't read or write but they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.56. The main reason for one's poor memory is that ______.A. his memory is not often usedB. he does not use his arms or legs for some timeC. he can't read or writeD. his father or mother may have a poor memory57. If you do not use your arms or legs for some time, _______.A. you can't use them any moreB. they will become strongerC. they will become weak but they slowly become strong againD. they will become weak and won't become strong until you use them again58. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Your memory like your arms or legs, becomes weak if you do not give it enough chance for practice.B. Don't learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory.C. A good memory comes from more practice.D. Your memory works in the same way as your arms or legs.59. Some people can't read or write, but they usually have better memories, because_______.A. they have saved much troubleB. they have saved much time to remember thingsC. they can't write everything in a little notebookD. they have to use their memories all the time60. Give the best title for this passage.A. Don't Stop Using Your Arms or LegsB. Strong Arms and Good MemoriesC. How to Have a Good MemoryD. Learn From the PeopleCToday, the paintings by Vincent van Gogh (梵高) are world-famous and worth millions of dollars but while he was alive, Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting. He was a lonely, unhappy man suffering from mental illness, and he died at 37.Vincent van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. His first connection with paintings came in 1869, when he got a job in the Goupil Gallery. He worked for this art dealer (经销商) in London and Paris for four years before he became a teacher in England for a short time. He moved back to France in 1877 and soon began to paint.Gogh was influenced by the famous artists that he met in Paris, where he returned to live in 1886. He did not stay long in the French capital. He was attracted by the vivid(鲜艳的) colors of the countryside and, in 1888, he moved to Aries, a small town in the south of France. There, he painted his most famous paintings, using strong brush strokes(画笔的笔触)and bright colors. Vincent van Gogh mainly painted landscapes (风景画), but he also produced portraits (肖像) of local people, such as the doctor and the postman.It was around this time that Vincent van Gogh began to show signs of mental illness. In 1889, following an argument with another artist, he cut off his own ear. For a time, he lived in a mental hospital in Saint Remy. In 1890, Vincent van Gogh moved to a town called Auvers. For two months, he painted feverishly(狂热地). Then, one day, he went into the fields with a revolver(左轮手枪)and shot himself. He died from his wounds the next day.61. Living in Paris helped Vincent van Gogh to be a better artist because .A. he began to make money thereB. he met some famous artists thereC. he got well again after being illD. he found many beautiful scenes there62. What’s the right order of the following events?a. Vincent van Gogh moved to a town called Auvers.b. Vincent van Gogh met some famous artists in Paris.c. Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear.d. Vincent van Gogh got a job in Goupil Gallery.A. d b c a B. d b a c C. a c d b D. d a c b63. Which of the following is TRUE about Vincent van Gogh?A. He liked to paint using bright colors.B. He never painted people.C. He was quite rich because his paintings were valuable.D. He began painting in his early childhood.64. What’s the main reason for Vincent van Gogh’s death?A. No one bought his paintings.B. He used up all his inspiration.C. He had mental illness.D. He died by accident.65. This passage is mainly about .A. Vincent van Gogh’s paintingsB. Vincent van Gogh’s deathC. Vincent van Gogh’s illnessD. Vincent van Gogh’s lifeDMaybe you have known that pearls grow inside oysters (牡蛎), but would you ever think to look for diamonds (钻石) inside an ostrich (鸵鸟)? Well, a hunter once shot an ostrich and discovered, to his great surprise, that the big bird had swallowed (吞) some diamonds. How could such a strange thing happen?Like many other birds, the ostrich swallows small stones that stay inside its “gizzard”. The gizzard is a bird’s second stomach. The small stones help to digest(消化) what they eat, because birds don’t have teeth. The bird simply had expensive taste in rocks, for it used the diamonds to digest its dinner.Diamonds and stones aren’t all that an ostrich will swallow. If there are no stones around, it will eat just anything. Sadly for ostriches in zoos, this can be a fatal habit. To swallow anything it sees has caused the death of many吸收ostriches. Cruel or careless people often throw things into the bird’s living space. They throw keys, coins, and even large objects. The ostrich swallows them without hesitation (犹豫). Coins can be the worst. Inside the ostrich, they will cut open the bird’s gizzard from the inside. When one young zoo ostrich died, 484 coins weighing more than eight pounds were found in its gizzard.66. According to the passage, what is the function of “gizzard”?A. It can help an ostrich to store water.B. It can help an ostrich to store food.C. It can help an ostrich to find food.D. It can help an ostrich to digest food.67. What does the underlined part mean in Paragraph 2?A. The diamonds were expensive food for the ostrich.B. The ostrich preferred the taste of the diamonds.C. The ostrich liked to use the diamonds to digest food.D. The ostrich just took the diamonds for ordinary stones.68. What may lead to the death of the ostrich?A. Rocks. B. Coins. C. Diamonds. D. Small stones.69. The last paragraph is mainly to __________.A. introduce an interesting habit of the ostrichB. give a brief introduction of a kind of birdC. call on the public to care more about the food given to the ostrich in the zooD. inform the readers of the eating habit of the ostrich70. The underlined word “fatal” has a similar meaning to “______”.A. kind B. good C. deadly(致命的) D. hateful

1.He did not let the heavy rain ___ his plans to hike up to the summit of the mountain.A. hinderB. disguiseC. invadeD. tackle

【答案】（1）D（2）A（3）C（4）B【解析】大意：本文主要讲述清华大学对毕业制裁了一项新规定。学生必须进行通过至少50米游泳测试，否则他们不能取得学士学位。（1）细节题。根据Some papers or high scores in exams? Well, these are not enough if you are a student at Tsinghua University. They need to pass a swimming test of at least 50 meters,可知清华大学的学生毕业生必须要进行考试，取得高分并且还要通过游泳测试，故选D。（2）词义猜测题。根据The news made waves in Chinese social media (媒体). Some people praised the university for requiring a necessary skill that can save lives, and they also believed that the rule would help improve students' health. However, others questioned if it was fair to expect those who come from inland cities (内陆城市) to be able to swim.可知对于清华大学出台毕业生这则新规定引起了中国社会媒体的广泛热论，推出made vaves意思是引起了热烈讨论，故选A。（3）细节题。根据because the number of students became too large and there were not enough swimming pools in the school for them to learn swimming.可知清华大学的学生人数多，且没有足够学习游泳的游泳池，故选C。（4）主旨题。本文主要讲述清华大学对毕业制裁了一项新规定，除了清华大学的学生毕业生必须要进行考试，取得高分并且还要通过游泳测试，故选B。【点评】考查阅读理解能力。细节题和词句猜测题和主旨大意题是阅读题中常考题型。细节题只需要从原文直接找答案；词句猜测题需要联系上下文，推出词句的意思；主旨大意题需要通读全文，了解大意之后找出中心思想。A.the couple thought the microchip wasn't helpful at allB.Scrub didn't feel uncomfortable with the microchip in its bodyC.it took a long time to match Roxy's ID number to her owner's informationD.Jennifer herself found her cat according to the ID number on its microchip（5）What is the main idea of the passage?A.The reasons why pets got lost.B.Different ways to find the lost pets.C.The ways how people care for the lost pets.D.The introduction of how microchips help the lost pets return home.2.（2019·通辽）阅读理解According to a 2018 study from San Francisco State University, nearly 2. 4 billion people around the world used a smartphone in 2017. By the end of 2019, more than a third of the global population will be using a smartphone.______On the one hand, it sends us unlimited amounts of information. On the other hand, using a smartphone may become an addiction.Erik Peper and Richard Harvey are both health education professors at San Francisco State university. They led the study. Peper explains that smartphone addiction forms connections in the brain that are similar to drug addiction.And these connections form slowly over time. Also, addiction to social media may affect our emotional state. The two professors asked 135 university students about their habit of smartphone use and their feelings. They found that students who used their phones the most reported higher levels of feeling lonely, depressed and anxious.Peper and Harvey do not blame users for their technology addiction. They believe it is the tech industry's desire to make more money that is to blame for the technology addiction. The researchers warm that workers in the technology industry know how to control our brains and turn us into addicts.But the researchers say that we can limit our brains to be less addicted to our phones and computers. Enk Peper suggests timing off our phones before we sleep or do something important. The researchers also suggest taking control of when and where you answer texts or emails. You do not need to answer them all. And you certainly don't need to answer them as soon as you get them. They also suggest putting limits on the time you spend on social media. If you want to catch up with friends on Facebook, set aside a small amount of time to it. You should focus on important tasks and do not allow technology to disturb you.（1）What can we infer from Paragraph 1?A.Smartphone use has become extremely common.B.Most young people can't live without smartphones.C.Smartphones make our life more colorful and convenient.D.Most people consider smartphones as the greatest invention.（2）The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means smartphone technology____.A.has a brilliant futureB.can be better than most people thinkC.has both advantages and disadvantagesD.can give us unlimited amounts of information（3）What did Enk Peper and Richard Harvey find about smartphone use?A.It can help reduce loneliness.B.It's more popular with students.C.It's preferred by young people feeling lonely.D.It can harm students' emotional state in many ways.（4）What does the last paragraph mainly want to tell us?A.Social media isn't that important to us.B.We can train our brine to do many things.C.We shouldn't become addicted to our smartphones.D.There are ways to deal with Smartphone use addiction.（5）Which of the followings is True?A.We can use smartphones to deal with loneliness.B.An addiction can't be controlled if we still use smartphones.C.There were nearly 2. 4 billion people using smartphones in the world in 2017.D.Stop using smartphones if you don't know when and where you should answer the emails.3.（2019·呼和浩特）阅读理解Do you want a job in the holiday? Just go for it. First, you need to know what kind of job is suitable for your age and interest.If you're 13 to 15.It seems that you can't work almost anywhere, but you're probably allowed to clean your neighbours' cars or walk their dogs.There is no lowest wage(工资) for children under 16.By law, you can't work more than 35 hours each week during school holidays. And you can't work before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m.If you're 16 or 17.The lowest wage for 16-17 years old teenagers should be no less than 7 dollars per hour.You can't work in a pub or bar, but you can work in many other places.By law, you can't work more than 40 hours each week.What jobs are out there?Obviously your choices are limited (限制) by the fact that you can only work during school holidays, but the following situations are fine.At Christmas, most shops are shart of hands, so you may find something to do there. In antumn, there's always fruit picking. It can be pretty hard work, but it pays really well.If you're mad about football, you can choose to work in a sports shop or help out at a local football club. No matter how much you are paid, you are doing what you like.（1）In the school holidays, 14-year-old kids ______.A.can work anywhere they wantB.are not allowed to work aloneC.can't go to work at nightD.can work as long as 14 hours a day（2）How much can a 16-year-old kid be paid at least in two hours?A.21 dollars.B.17 dollars.C.14 dollars.D.7 dollars.（3）If you want to clean cars for others, you should at least be ______.A.16B.15C.14D.13（4）According to the passage, which statement is true?.

Her new series will underline(debut) next March on network television.A. n.首次登台；初次露面B. v.初次露面；首次登台C. v.巡查；巡逻D. v.修剪；割

The climate was ________ two harvests were possible each year: one in winter fed by the rains and one in summer fed by the irrigation from the canal.A. so thatB. now thatC. since thatD. such that

50. Although the flame is usually carried by runners on foot, other modes of transport have also been used.A. 火炬手通常徒步完成圣火传递，但也将使用其他的交通工具。B. 跑步者通常徒步完成圣火传递，但也将使用其他的交通工具。C. 火炬手通常徒步完成圣火传递，但也已使用到其他的交通工具。D. 跑步者通常徒步完成圣火传递，但也已使用到其他的交通工具。

By the last quarter of the football game, the fans were almost _ to losing, but two unexpected touchdowns grabbed victory.A. restrainedB. retiredC. resumedD. resigned

Can Tony Blair Save the World of Books At the beginning of A Journey, Tony Blair boasts that he has "the soul of a rebel". Last week, he made good on that boast by conducting a gravity-defying act of literary presumption--pubhshing a hardback of some 720 pages, priced at ~25, tricked out with index, acknowledgments and 32 pages of photographic plates. According to Cathy Rentzenbrink, manager of the Richmond Waterstone’s: "These sales are brilliant and really exciting. You don’t often have customers almost breaking down the door to buy a book, but Blair is totally outselling Mandelson. I’ve not seen anything this big since Harry Potter or Dan Brown. This looks like the Christmas book of the year." She adds: "It’s very rare for a hardback to outsell a future paperback, but this might be one of those exceptions." Rentzenbrink says she does not know its Amazon discount, or if there’s a significant ebook and audiobook sale. What matters is that a fat hardback with a big print run is actually selling. Go into any bookshop today and you will find the unmistakable evidence of a business in the midst of a collective nervous breakdown: hardbacks discounted at 50%; heaped tables of "3 for 2"; and other hints of the death of print: andiobooks and advertisements for the Sony Reader, or the Elonex touch screen, or the Cybook Opus. This year, there are more than 20 competing e-readers. Across the Atlantic, Blair’s chunky memoir (回忆录) will seem even more antique. The American reading public is adopting the ebook with the enthusiasm of a great cousumer society. Wherever you go in the US, the electronic print of the hand-held screen glows like fairytale magic. Ebook sales are soaring, accompanied by terrible predictions about the future of publishing. The picture is all the more disturbing because it’s so hard to interpret, with competing diagnoses. Are we in intensive care or the morgue (太平间) Since 2000, the Anglo-American book business has been rocked by great disturbance. Google has digitised some 10 million titles. Barnes and Noble is for sale. Borders, bankrupt in the UK, clings on in the US. Here, Waterstone’s parent company, HMV, wants to sell. Amazon’s market share continues to soar. Asda, Tesco and the supermarket chains are said to be draining the life out of independent bookselling. In the US, it’s claimed that ebooks are now outselling many hardbacks. By the end of this year, 10.3 million Americans are expected to own e-readers, buying an estimated 100m ebooks. In the UK, electronic publishing lags behind the US, but many of the brightest publishing brains, notably Enhanced Editions, are looking hard at the potential of the book as application. Only a few people would dispute that it’s a matter of time before the ebook joins the iPod and the mobile phone as a vital component of the way we live. Ebooks, indeed, are already integral to the iPad and last week Amazon launched a sales campaign for its latest Kindle. Deplore this if you must, but be prepared: even the Oxford English Dictionary is now conceding that its third edition, 21 years in the making, will be published not on paper but online. The ￡25 hardback of Blair’s A Journey will certainly become a traditional bestseller. But many nervous industry observers are watching to see how many ebooks it sells. Within the book trade itself, all the main players (agents, editors, booksellers) have converted to e-reading, and now some authors are exploring the potential of the new technology. Stephen Fry is said to be developing a revolutionary application for his forthcoming autobiography. Yet many traditional publishers privately say that printed books will continue to be manufactured, bought and cherished. The buzz surrounding last week’s Kindle launch raises the possibility that the book is about to become swallowed up by an "iPod moment" for literature, similar to the transformation wrought on the music industry by downloading. Who knows Here’s where gazing into the crystal ball for the biggest IT revolution in 500 years gets really difficult. Tim Waterstone, who has had an unusual sense of what the British book buyer wants, remains sceptical. He concedes that the reference book market (dictionaries, encyclopedias) is "certain to go online". But what about fiction Biography Poetry Children’s books "Personally," he says, "I don’t think so." Like many great booksellers, Waterstone is a cultural conservative. As he talks, he spots a paperback classic on his 17:year-old daughter’s bookshelves, and launches into the old defence of ink and paper. "That’s incredible value," says Waterstone. "She’s a child of the digital age and she’s still buying books." So what’s the future A long pause. "The only honest thing to say is: I really don’t know." Another innovator, the writer Will Serf--whose Walking to Hollywood, an introduction for the movie business, has just been published--is in no doubt. "I’ve unknowingly acquired a Kindle," says Serf, "and I find that everything I read on it, especially Stieg Larsson, becomes nonsense. I’m inclined to blame the technology. With no physical similarity I think the text loses its .weight." Serf confesses to being unsure how much of his own backlist is available in ebook form. Sells response to the e-reader is echoed on the shop floor of Waterstone’s. Next to a discreet sign advertising "reading accessories" I found Elizabeth Squires, a mother of two, hesitated to buy Blair. This would be a departure for her because she buys "20 or 30 new books a year, all paperback, all fiction". Half of these she gets from Amazon. Audiobooks "Strictly for the kids." An ebook "No. Why should I I haven’t got anything to read it on." Is she tempted "I’ve been thinking about buying the Kindle, but it would never replace my book collection. Book lovers will always love books. There’s something irreplaceabie about a book. It gives you a physical, even an aesthetic, experience. For me, it’s an emotional thing. My books are my friends. There’s something about having a book in bed, about holding it, even smelling it, that I could never get from an e-reader. Isn’t the first thing you do when you move house, to rearrange your books" Elsewhere, the rearrangement of the book trade continues quickly. Last week’s New York Times Book Review contained no fewer than three separate items about the death of print. But paradoxically, the age of digitisation is both a golden age of ink and a boom time for narrative, in many media, on countless "platforms", from blogs, audiobooks to television soaps and Facebook. Bookshops are changing. The worst are becoming novelty item and greetings card booth, but the good ones are selling more books than ever, and the publishers, cursing the climate and moaning as usual about the state of the harvest, show few signs of cutting back on their output. Blair’s success suggests that the book-buying public may talk digital but actually buy printed books.It is said that Stephen Fry is going to ______ A. develop a revolutionary application of e-reader B. continue to manufacture printing booksC. explore a new way to display his autobiographyD. sell his autobiography only online

Ⅱ.Reading in Depth-|||-Direetions: In this section,there is a passage with /anks. You are required to-|||-select one word for each blank from the words given below.Read the passage through-|||-carefully before making your choices. You may not use any of the words more than-|||-once.-|||-paid ranging by covered prestigious on show-|||-abundant rise .rapid annual said .pay peers-|||-Beijing property workers enjoy highest pay rise in 2006-|||-Workers in Beijing`s property sector enjoyed an average pay rise of 11.9 percent last year,the-|||-highest in China,beating their 1 in Shanghai,Shenzhen and Guangzhou,says an industry-|||-report.Property salespers interior decoration desig and marketing staff in the real estate-|||-sector were the highest 2 The average 3 income of a design manager was 200,000 yuan,-|||-said the 2006 China Salary Report by Taihe Consulting,a market survey company.-|||-The survey 4 more than 100 industries, including pro finance,pharmaceuticals(药-|||-品),the technology and service sectors,and collected 130,000 responses.-|||-The report said the salaries of people in Beijing`s high tech industry also 5 strong-|||-growth.Rank-and file employees from Beijing`s high-tech compa earned less than-|||-those in Shanghai and Guangzhou,but executives raked in an average annual package of-|||-600,000yuan,about 100,000 yuan more than their counterparts in the south.The report-|||-attributed the disparity to the capital`s 6 education and research and development resources-|||-including the 7 Peking University and Tsinghua University and the Zhongguancun Science-|||-and Technology Park.It said the average Chinese pay 8 was 8.1 percent last year,but the-|||-salary level in the telecommunications sector changed little.Executives in telecommuni-|||-tions companies earned half a million yuan 9 average,basically the same as the previous-|||-year.People working in the rapidly growing consumer goods industry tended to earn more as-|||-an increasing number of international retail giants moved into Beijing.Financial institu-|||-pharmaceutical firms and hospitals also saw rising pay levels last year,with the annual growth-|||-rate 10 from 5 percent to 11 percent.-|||-1.peers 2.paid 3.annual 4.covered 5.show 6.abundant 7.prestigious 8.rise 9.on 10.ranging

Which of the following properties is inscribed on the World Heritage List?A. Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest AreaB. Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest AreaC. Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, LhasaD. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor