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第一部分 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)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项.

A

Krakatau volcano(克拉克托火山)is in a small island in Indonesia. It had been peaceful for about 200 years before it erupted(爆发)in 1883.

The first signs of the activity of the volcano appeared in May 1883, when fire and smoke could be seen at the top of the mountain. Great noise could be heard even in Jakarta a hundred miles away. Later the activity grew much greater. The peak(山顶)was covered with smoke and fire; the smoke at one time was seventeen miles high in the air. The lava—soft and hot rock—shot up into the air and rolled down the sides of the mountain.

The mouth of the volcano was not at the peak of the mountain but on its side, close to the sea. As it grew bigger and bigger with the eruption, the sea water got into it. When the sea water reached the lava inside the volcano, it made the upper part of the lava colder and harder. And this sealed off(封住)the rest of the lava below. As the inside of the lava could not break through the seal, the pressure(压力)built up until the mountain blew up.

The eruption of the volcano was followed by several earthquakes which brought about bad result. About 36000 people were killed and many towns and villages near the sea were completely destroyed by the great waves which the earthquake caused.

1.Give the correct order of the course of volcano eruption.

①The peak was covered with smoke and fire.

②Fire and smoke could be seen at the top of the mountain.

③Great noise could be heard a hundred miles away.

④The lava shot into the air and rolled down the sides of the mountain.

A. ①②③④　　　　　　　　　　　B. ①③②④

C.②③①④　　　　　　　　　　　 D. ④①③②

2..What makes volcanoes erupt?

A. The sea water which goes into the volcano.     B. The lava.

C. The pressure which is bigger and bigger.       D. All the above.

3.Where is the mouth of a volcano?

A. At the peak of the mountain.           B. On the side of the mountain near the sea.

C. At the foot of the mountain.           D. In side the mountain.

B

I was in a strange city and I didn't know the city at all, and what is more, I could not speak a word of the language. After having spent my first day in the town-centre, I decided to lose my way on my second day, since I believed that this was the simplest way of getting to know the strange city, I got on the first bus that passed, rode on it for several stops, then got off it and walked on. The first two hours passed pleasantly enough. Then I decided to turn back to my hotel for lunch. After walking about for some time, I decided I had better ask the way. The trouble was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the street in which I lived and even then I pronounced it badly. I stopped to ask a friendly-looking newspaper-seller. He smiled and handed me a paper. I shook my head and repeated the name of the street and he put the paper into my hands. I had to give him some money and went on my way. The next person I asked was a policeman. The policeman listened to me carefully, smiled and gently took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right and left again. I thanked him politely and began walking in the direction he pointed. About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green fields were appearing on either side of me. I had come all the way into the countryside. The only thing left for me to do was to find the nearest railway station.

4. The writer believed that if you wanted to get to know a strange city, ________.

A. you should go everywhere on foot          B. you should have a map

C. you should ask people the way             D. you should get lost

5. The newspaper-seller ________.

A. could understand what he said              B. didn't know what he said

C. laughed at him                          D. didn't want to take the money

6. The writer's real trouble was that ________.

A. he couldn't speak the language       B. he followed the policeman's direction

C. he took the wrong bus              D. he left the town-centre

7. The policeman ________.

A. didn't help him                           B. pointed at him

C. didn't understand what he really meant        D. didn't know the way

C

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary, “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could not share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.(酗酒)

8. How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?

A. 5.             B. 6.             C. 7.            D. 8.