第二节：阅读下面短文，按句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，自选词汇或用括号中词语的正确形式填空。答案写在答题卷上相应番号后的横线上。

Well, I remember my first teacher, and she told us such (41)_______ (amuse) stories. I remember a maths teacher. She was always (42)_______ (dress) very well. I couldn’t stop (43) _______(look) at her. I wanted to be like her. Our chemistry teacher was so strict (44) _______ we were afraid of him. I don’t think he liked us. The literature teacher was so (45) _______(bore). He could make us fall asleep very quickly. One year we had a (46)_______(real) good Chinese teacher. He told very (47)_______(fun) jokes. I also had a PE teacher who never gave us any (48)______ (encourage). I am not interested in sports because of him. Our biology teacher was very intelligent and (49)_______(organize). All of us had a lot of respect (50)_______ her.

第Ⅲ卷     读写能力测试

四、阅读理解(共两节，满分30分)

第一节 (共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

(A)

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 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 (帐单). 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.”

51. 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.

52. 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

53. The actress got the painter’s bill ______.

A. to ask for the money of his painting work.

B. to ask her to pay for his watching her show

C. in which he showed his thanks for the tickets

D. in which he expressed his dissatisfaction

54. It can be learned from the text that one pound is___________ shillings.

A. 10        B. 12        C. 20       D. 15

55. 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.

B.

Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher，no matter how much he knows can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

It is always more important to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula(公式). It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in maths. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein，Newton and Galileo didn’t get everything from school. But they were all so successful. They invented so many things for mankind. The reason for their success is that they worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.

Above all, they knew how to use their brains.

56. The subject which is not spoken of in the article is _____

A. maths    B. history  C. physiology(生理学)   D. physics

57. The teacher’s job is to teach ___________.

A. everything the students want to know      B. the students everything that they know

C. the students some facts of formulas        D. the students how to learn

58.Einstein,Newton and Galileo did so many things for mankind because_____.

A. they learned a lot at school

B. they knew how to learn new things outside class by themselves

C. they were so useful   D. they went to college and learned form professors

59. Who does the article say didn’t waste a single moment?

A. Great people     B. Persons who work as teachers

C. The great scientist-Newton    D. Great scientists

60. From the passage we know that if we want to be successful, we should________ .

A. Only learn more at school       B. needn’t go to school

C. Only learn science subjects       D. learn to learn at school and learn more outside school

第二节 (共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

下面是对六种学习用品(school things)的介绍。请阅读以下对六种学习用品的详细描述，并按照要求匹配信息。

A. Besides nice look, the pen has good quality(质量)and writes well. The line from its pen point is very fine and dries quickly. With everyday last–for–long use, this is the best choice.

B. “Step by step” is a popular name for the electronic dictionary which is loved by most students. There is no need to look up the new words in an old paper one. By clicking some buttons, you’ll get the meaning easily.

C. Are you tired of surfing the Internet by connecting the computer with a net cable (网线)? Are you dreaming of having a computer in different colors like pink, light blue and so on? The IBM company has the newest ones.

D. This special board is an excellent tool for students who are fond of drawing. The design is modern and it can be put in your bag.

E. There is no need to sharpen your pen while you need to write something. This is the writing instrument(工具) for people who hate to sharpen.

F. A nice calculator (计算器), which is of very high quality with a good-looking cover. The clear screen and big buttons (按键) make it easy to use. Besides calculating, it also has some games to relax yourself after tiring lessons.

下面五人想购买学习用品，请阅读他们的具体要求，并为他们进行最适当的匹配。

61. Alan is in great need of some kind of fast-speed dictionary. It always takes him a lot of time to look up new English words in some big old dictionaries.

62. Tim is a student who shows great interest in art. Whenever he has free time he would go outdoors for drawing. For this reason he’d like to get a special instrument for his work.

63. Anne is a secretary in an office. She expects to get a writing instrument that looks nice and writes well. However, she dislikes using ball-pens and hopes the pen can be used for a long time with good quality.

64. Peter is a middle school student who wants to increase his speed in doing math exercises because he hates wasting time on calculating. In order to save time for other subjects, he plans to turn to some kind of instrument for help.

65. In order to catch up with her college study life, Grace decides to buy a laptop, which can help her surf the Internet. As a girl, the beautiful appearance of the laptop is certainly of great importance.

61. _______    62. _______     63._______    64._______     65._______