第三部分：阅读理解(每小题2分，满分40分)

A

Hello, Listeners. Welcome to Henton Hospital Radio. Before our music programme at four, I’m going to repeat some of our hospital rules.

The hospital can sleep 800 patients. There’re 8 beds in each ward (病房). The visiting hours are in the afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 and in the evening from 7:00 to 8:00. But remember only two people can see you at the same time. Sorry about that, but you can see what would happen if we didn’t have these rules.

The other rules are about our hours. We start quite early---you might not be used to that. We wake you at 6 o’clock, and breakfast is at 8 o’clock, lunch is at noon.

There’s tea at 3:30 and supper is at 6 o’clock.

You can see the non-smoking sign –-- we don’t allow smoking in the wards. I’m sure you understand why. However, if you do need to smoke, there are some smoking rooms where It is allowed.

You will find the radio switch (开关) on the wall near your bed, with your own headphones, if you want to listen. It’s our own hospital radio wishing you a quick recovery (康复).

56. Who do you think the listeners might be?

A. Patients. B. Visitors. C. Doctors D. Nurses

57. How many wards are there in this hospital?

A. 8 B. 80 C. 100 D. 800

58. Which is Not allowed in the hospital?

A. Listening to the hospital radio. B. Visiting patients in the morning.

C. Smoking in smoking-rooms. D. Getting up early in the morning.

59. What programme will follow this radio talk?

A. Hospital rules. B. A weather report. C. A free talk. D. A music programme.

B

A beautiful and very successful actress (女演员) was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the countryside, but she did not want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the centre of the city, got some beautiful furniture (家具) and got a man to paint the rooms in new colours.

It was very difficult to get tickets for her show, because everybody wanted to see it. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter’s bill (账单). At the bottom of it were these words: “ Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance: 3 pounds,” with this note: “After 5 p.m., I get 15 shillings (先令) an hour instead of 10 shillings.”

60. The actress bought a house in the centre of the city because ______.

A. she liked to live in the busiest place B. she didn’t like to live in the country

C. her home was far away from where she worked D. she didn’t want to go back to her hometown any longer

61. In order to make the painter work better for her, the actress ________.

A. gave him two tickets for her show B. sang and danced for him for hours

C. paid him 3 pounds D. decided to pay him 15 shillings an hour

62. The actress got the painter’s bill ________.

A. to ask for the money of his painting work B. to ask to pay for his watching her show

C. in which he showed his thanks for the tickets D. in which he expressed his dissatisfaction

63. What kind of man was the painter?

A. He was a careful man. B. He was a poor man.

C. He was not friendly to others. D. He knew little about music and dances.

C

Isn't it astonishing how much time we spend talking about food? “Have you ever eaten …?” “What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you will find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal (正常) and that what other people eat is strange or silly. In most parts of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a great deal of beer, and the French drink wine every day.

The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. New Zealanders eat sheep, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don't like to eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy eating raw fish (生鱼).

So it seems that although eating is a topic we can talk about for hours, there is very little common sense in what we say it. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always eaten, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits.

64. Which of the following is true according to the article?

A. All people have the same feeling about food. B. In most parts of Asia, people usually have rice for meals.

C. People often consider other people to be strange or silly. D. The topic people spend time talking about is bread and meat.

65. People in different countries ___ .

A. drink the same sort of wine B. have the same eating habit

C. eat different kinds of meat D. have the same tea at different time within a day

66. The Japanese don't like to eat sheep meat __ .

A. because they dislike its smell B. because it is too expensive

C. because it is easy to go bad D. because they think it will do harm to their health

67. English people drink tea four or five times a day _ .

A. because they get thirsty easily B. because there is plenty of tea in Britain

C. because of their drinking habit D. because they have enough time to do so