第二部分.阅读理解

第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A，B,C，D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave￡12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.

As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

36. Johnson became a rich man through ___________.

A. doing business B. making whisky

C. cheating D. buying and selling land

37. The gift of money to the school suggests (暗示) that Johnson ___________.

A. had no children B. was a strange man

C. was very fond of children D. wanted people to know how rich he was

38. Many people wrote to Johnson to find out ___________.

A. what kind of whisky he had B. how to live longer

C. how to become wealthy

D. in which part of the neck to have an injection

39. The newspaperman ___________.

A. should have reported what Johnson had told him

B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had

C. was eager to live a long life

D. should have found out what Johnson really meant

B

If you have a watch, don’t go to a watchmaker’s unless something is wrong with the machinery. Once I had a beautiful watch. And it had kept perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to wind it up (上发条). Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to be set by the exact time. He examined it and said, “The regulator (快慢调整器) must be pushed up as your watch is four minutes slow.

I tried to stop him from doing so, but he didn’t listen and pushed the regulator.

My beautiful watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it had left all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.

I could do nothing but take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch at once, but he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I got my watch back from him, it began to slow down. And I failed to be in time for trains, business affairs, and even missed my dinners.

Now I went to a third watchmaker. When I was waiting for him to repair my poor watch, he took it to pieces and said that he would try to finish this work in three or four days. What I could do was to nod my head. After that, my watch went for half a day, and then stopped. So I kept taking my watch from one watchmaker to another. But each watchmaker disappointed me.

My watch had cost me two hundred dollars, but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy another watch, which I did.

40. The writer took his watch to the first watchmaker in order to ___________.

A. check (检查) it whether it kept good time B. change some parts

C. have it set by the exact time D. push up the regulator

41. The watch went faster than it used to be ___________.

A. after it was repaired B. before it was repaired

C. during the time when it was being repaired D. if it was repaired

42. Not long after his watch was regulated, he ___________ for the second time.

A. regulated it B. set it C. repaired it D. had it repaired

43. The writer decided to buy another watch because ___________.

A. he would not spend more money on repairs

B. he didn’t like the old one

C. a new watch could keep good time

D. he had spent two hundred dollars on repairs

C

Tourism wasn’t as important as it is today. In the past, only people with a good deal of money could travel on holidays to other countries. More people travel today than in the past because there is a growing middle class in many parts of the world; that is to say, people now have more money for travel. Special plane fares for tourists make travel less expensive and more attractive than ever before. One person doesn’t travel for the same reason as another. But most people enjoy seeing countries that are different from their own. They also like to meet new people and to taste new food.

Tourism causes many changes in a country and in people’s lives. People build new hotels and restaurants and train native men and women as guides to show visitors interesting places. There’re new nightclubs and other amusements. International tourism is clearly a big business.

44. In the old days _________ could travel to other countries.

A. boys and girls, men or women, young or old

B. either kings or queens

C. both the poor and the rich

D. nobody but those who had money

45 . More people travel today than in the past because______________.

A. people have become interested in traveling

B. traveling today is easier the in the past

C.　people now have spare money for travel

D.　great changes have taken place in the world

46 What makes travel more attractive than before?

A.　Travel by air to other countries is much cheaper today.

B.　More guides are being trained to show beautiful spots.

C.　Modern telegraph lines make travel less expensive.

D.　New hotels and restaurants have been built.

47 . What is the best title of the passage?

A. The Change of Tourism B. Tourism

C. The Importance of Tourism D. The Cause of Tourism Change

D

Did you know that a turtle(乌龟)can lay 12 eggs in one minute? A large sea turtle lays around 150 eggs at a time. She lays all these eggs in just a few minutes.

Large sea turtles live in the warm seas of the world. Except for when they lay their eggs, they spend their whole lives in the water. When it is time to lay their eggs, the females swim to land.

They usually return to the place where they themselves were born. How they find their way back there is unknown.

When they reach shore, the big, heavy turtles crawl slowly up to the high water mark. Using their flippers, they pull themselves along the sand. They must struggle like mountain climbers.

When they finally reach dry sand, they rest before beginning the difficult task of laying eggs.

The turtles lay the eggs in deep holes and cover them with warm sand. The sand protects the eggs from harm. Then the females leave them. After a few weeks, if you happened to be walking along the beach, you might see the sand begin to shake. You may see tiny black balls coming out

of the sand. The tiny heads of baby turtles!

48 The first sentence lets us know that this passage is about __________.

A. turtles B. oceans C. time D. speed

49 Turtles bury their eggs to protect them from ____________.

A. deep water B. danger C. heat D. bad weather

50 . The writer compares turtles to climbers ___________.

A. because they lay their eggs in mountain areas

B. to give you a picture of how hard they work

C. to tell you that they like to climb

D. to show that mountain climbers are as