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Passage Three It's Christmas again. We live on a dirty street in a shabby house amon

Passage Three

It's Christmas again. We live on a dirty street in a shabby house among people who aren't much good. You can't see how pitiful it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of this filth (污秽) and dirt. My children must get out of this. But how？ The money that we've saved isn't nearly enough.

The McGaritys have money, but they are show-offs with it. The McGarity girl just yesterday stood out there in the street eating from a bag of cookies while a group of hungry children watched her. I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts, and when she couldn't eat any more, she threw the rest down the sewer (阴沟).

Miss Jackson who teaches at the Settlement House (教育中心) isn’t rich, but she knows things, she understands people. Her eyes look straight into yours when she talks with you. Everyboby else here looks away because they'rs ashamed of their lives. I'd like to see the children be like Miss Jackson when they grow up.

41. The writer suggests that her family______.

A. is extremely rich

B. is an unhappy one

C. live with nice and kind people

D. long for a change in their life

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Passage Three For more than six million American children, coming home after school

Passage Three

For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house. They spend part of each day alone. They are called "latchkey children". They're children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad conditions have become a social problem.

Lyne Brown was once the headmaster of an elementary school. She said, "A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached.! was constantly telling them to put them inside shirts. There were so many keys, it never came to my mind what they meant. ",slowly, she learned they were house keys.

Lyne learned of the impact working couples and single parents were having on their children. She found that Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety.

The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. It might be in a shower stall, under a bed, in a closet. The second is TV. They'll often play it at high volume. It's hard to get statistics (情况，材料) on latchkey children. Most parents are slow to admit they leave their children alone.

41. The main idea about "latchkey children" is that they______.

A. are growing in numbers

B. are also found in middle-class neighborhoods

C. watch too much television during the day

D. suffer problems from being left alone

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On the morning of November 18,1735, an earthquake shook Boston, Massachusetts. John Winthr

op, a professor at Harvard College, felt the quake and awoke. "I rose," Winthrop wrote, "and lighting a candle, looked on my watch, and found it to be 15 minutes after four." John Winthrop walked quickly downstairs to the grandfather's clock. It had stopped three minutes before, at 4 ' 11. Except for stopping the clock, the quake had only thrown a key from the mantel to the floor.

The clock had stopped because Winthrop had put some long glass tubes he was using for an experiment into the box for safekeeping. The quake had knocked the tubes over and blocked the pendulum. Winthrop, therefore, had the exact time that the earthquake had hit Boston. He looked at the key on the floor. The quake had thrown it forward in the direction of the quake's motion by a shock coming from the northwest, perhaps in Canada.

This passage suggests that ______.

A．John Winthrop had difficulty in sleeping

B．earthquakes are common in Boston

C．Boston was a center for clock-making

D．John Winthrop was a scientist

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Passage Three An old Indian story says that the game of chess （国际象棋) was invented

Passage Three

An old Indian story says that the game of chess (国际象棋) was invented by Sissa Ben, Prime Minister of King Shirham. As soon as the invention was finished he gave it to the king, who was glad and asked him what he would like to have in return. To the king's surprise, what Sissa wanted seemed very little. "Your Majesty, "said the minister, kneeling before the king. "I want nothing but some wheat. Please put a grain of wheat on the first square of the chessboard (棋盘), two on the second, four on the third, eight on the fourth.., and so on, doubling the number for each following square. Give me enough grains to cover the 64 squares of the chessboard."

"You don't ask for much, my honest servant. You might have asked for gold or money," said the king and then ordered a bag of wheat brought to the palace.

But when the counting began, with one grain for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on, the bag was emptied before the 20th square. More bags were brought, but the number of grain needed for the following squares increased so rapidly that the king was not able to keep his promise even with all the crops in the whole India! In fact, he would have needed 8 466 744 073 709 511 615 grains, which would be as much as that they would produce in about 2000 years!

Now tile king found himself deep in debt to his minister. He had either to face the terrible trouble all his life or to cut off Sissa's head, the litter of which, it is said was what he finally chose.

41. This story tells us ______.

A. how cruel the king was

B. how clever the minister was

C. Sissa was a famous mathematician

D. how the game of chess came into being

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It is a pity that three paragraphs of my paper were ______by my advisor.A.deletedB.skimmed

It is a pity that three paragraphs of my paper were ______by my advisor.

A.deleted

B.skimmed

C.omitted

D.left off

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My father is（)than my mother.A、three years olderB、older three yearsC、three years old

My father is()than my mother.

A、three years older

B、older three years

C、three years old

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阅读理解：结合上下文内容补全填空。（共 50 分）

Mary, the 17-year-old daughter of a rich textile（纺织品） owner was freed（释放） by her kidnappers（绑匪） after 118 days. She said she spent most of the time in a tent in the woods （1） one foot tied to a tree. She was freed late on Friday （2） her family paid a total of

$1. 8 million, the largest ransom (赎金) ?ever?paid in Italy.

“I was treated （3） , ” the girl told the reporter during the interview, “Biscuits, cakes, often hot food and at times beef. ” She said her nearly four months in trouble was spent in a tent set up inawooded?area.

“I never saw their faces and （4） they spoke, they changed their voices in nasal tones (speaking through nose passage) on purpose , ” she said. “They kept repeating that the only thing they wanted was the money and that they didn' t want to have （5） to do with me or my family. ”

The high school student, who was seized by three face-covered and armed men on July 2, 1983 from her family' s country villa in Tuscany, said she still had no idea?where?exactly she had been held.

(1)A. with

B. and

C. although

(2) A. so

B. after

C. unless

(3) A. good

B. bad

C. well

(4)A. when

B. that

C. which

(5) A. nothing

B. something

C. anything

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Passage Three Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for

Passage Three

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something.

His purpose is settled and decided. He knows what he wants and he just finds it and buys it, but cares little about the price. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it, the salesman quickly takes it out, and the business of trying it on follows at once. If all is well, the deal(买卖) can be and is often completed in less than five minutes, with hard any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.

For a man, small problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman tries to sell the customer something else—he offers the nearest he can to the thing asked for. He would say, "I know this jacket is not the style. you want, Sir, but would you like to try it on for size？ It happens to be the color you mentioned." Few men have patience (耐心 ) with this treatment, and the usual answer is, "This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on."

Now how docs a woman go about buying clothes？ In almost every respect (方面) she does so quite differently. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind about what she wants, and she is only "having a look around". She is always open to what the salesman tells her, even to what her friends tell her. She will try on any number of things. What is most important in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Besides, most women have an excellent sense of value when they boy clothes. The), are always ready for the unexpected bargain (便宜货). Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one counter to another before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It takes time, but surely it is enjoyable to women shoppers. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

44. When a man is buying clothes, ______.

A. he buys cheap things and does not care about the quality

B. he chooses things that others recommend

C. he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things

D. he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too expensive

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my father can speak three languages （) chinese and english.A.besideB.besidesC.exceptD.e

A.beside

B.besides

C.except

D.except for

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In the passage, the author ______.A．agrees to the three argumentsB．demonstrates the three

In the passage, the author ______.

A．agrees to the three arguments

B．demonstrates the three arguments with more evidence

C．is against the three arguments

D．explains the three arguments more clearly

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Passage Three My husband and children feel very happy to live here. They can't see that we