三、阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能回答所提问题所给句子的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

(A.)

Once there was a rich man who lived with his wife and child. He loved the child so much that he sent him to Oxford(牛津大学) for two or three years. At the end of the first year at the university, this young student came home. He wanted a change. And he also wanted to tell his parents about Oxford.

It happened one night that the father, the mother and the young student were sitting at supper. They had in front of them only two chickens. Just as they were about to begin eating, the father said, "My boy, I have spent a lot of money on you to send you to Oxford. Now I want to know what you have learned. "The son smiled and said, "Father, I have studied a science which can prove (证明) that these two chickens on the plate are really three chickens. ""Well," said the father, "This is something I would like very much to know. ""There are two chickens on the plate, "said the student. He took one of the chickens in his hand and said, "Here is one more; and one and two makes three. So here are three chickens. "Then the father took one of the chickens to himself, gave the other to his wife, and said, "I will have one of the chickens my-self, your mother shall have another, and you can have the third for your supper and nothing else. "The father kept his word and so the student went without his supper.

36. The rich man loved his son very much, so he__________.

A. sent him to work at Oxford for two or three years .

B. wanted him to live at Oxford for two or three years

C. sent him to Oxford to study .

D. gave him a lot of money

37. The father asked his son_______.

A. how much money he had spent at the university

B. how he liked Oxford

C. what he had learned by the end of the first year at the university

D. how his son got along with his classmates .

38. The student said that_________.

A. he could make three chickens   .

B. he could change the two chickens on the plate into three .

C. he could prove the two chickens on the plate were really three.

D. he was good at maths .

39. Who was cleverer, the father or the son?

A. Neither.     B. Both.    C. The son.  D. The father.

30. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage ?_________.

A.In the end the student had nothing to eat for his supper

B.In the end each of them had a chicken for their supper

C.In the end the father gave his son the third chicken to eat .

D. In the end both of the parents had no chickens to eat

B.

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A . Larry .   B . David  .  C . Mr . White . D . Susan .

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43.Which of the four people may get the job as a taxi driver ?

A . A 50-year-old person .   B . A person who knows very well about     the city .  C . A person who has just got his driver's licence .

D .  A person who can drive and has free time on weekends .

44 . When is hot water provided in the apartment according to the ad?

A . In the daytime.    B . At night .  C . At any time .

D . Only in the afternoon .

45.How can you ask the owner of the apartment for more information ?

A . By making a phone call . B . By going to visit it .

C . By sending an e-mail .   D . By sending a letter.

C.

A teacher from a Western country has recently visited an elementary school in an Eastern country. In one class, she watched sixty young children  as they learned to draw a cat. The teacher drew a big O on the blackboard, and the sixty students copied it on their paper. The teacher drew a smaller O on the top of the first O and then  put two  on top of it. The children drew in the same way. The lesson went on until there were sixty-one similar cats in the classroom. Each student’s cat looked exactly like the one on the board.

The visiting teacher watched the lesson and was greatly surprised because the teaching methods were very different from that in her own country. A children’s art lesson in her own country produced a roomful of pictures, and each is quite different from others. Why? What makes this difference? In a classroom in any country, a teacher teaches not only knowledge of history or language.

In some countries such as the United States and Canada etc, people think highly of individualism----the differences between people. The teachers think it very important to make each student different from others. Educational systems in these countries don’t ask students to memorize dull information. Instead, students are asked to work by themselves and find answers themselves. The students are helped to learn to have their own ideas even at an early age.

But in countries such as China and Japan, the two peoples have similar history and culture. Perhaps because of this, people think highly of group goals rather than individualism. Students in China and Japan often work together and help each other in the classroom, The teachers teach and the students listen. The students are asked to memorize a lot. They have to learn the same textbook. They do the same homework and give the same answers.

46. Why was the visiting teacher surprised when she watched the art lesson ?

A. Because it was her first time to watch an art class in an Eastern country.

B.  Because she found there were so many children in one class.

C.  Because she had never seen such a beautiful cat as the teacher drew before .

D.  Because she found all the cats the students drew looked the same .

47. The underlined word “ methods ” means _________.

A. ways    B. textbooks     C. reasons.     D.  instructions.

48.The visiting teacher was greatly surprised by ______ in the elementary school.

A. the teacher's drawing B. the teaching method

C. the sixty-one cats D. the big class

49.The writer of this passage thinks that ______ .

A. the teaching method can change the educational systems

B. a teacher should teach something more than the subject

C. American students should be asked to memorize more useful information

D. It would be better for students in Canada and American to learn the same textbook

50. In the United States ______ .

A. teachers have to teach different students

B. students are asked to memorize the useful information

C. teachers think highly of both individualism and group goals

D. students are encouraged to learn more by themselves  .