Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people? Myself included? Usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires(篝火) outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
1. The best title for the passage would be______.
A. Touched by the moon
B. The pleasures of modern life
C. A bottomless well of silence
D. Break away from modern life
2. The writer felt sorry for himself because________.
A. there was too much pollution
B. he seldom enjoyed the fullest moon outsides
C. he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D. there were too many accidents on the road
3.What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modern equipment B. Complete silence.
C. The nice moonlight D. The high mountains
4. Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.
A. show that the writer likes city life very much
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. explain that people have fewer chances to enjoy nature
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
5. The author wrote the passage to_______.
A. express the feeling of returning to nature
B. show the love for the moonlight
C. advise modern people to learn to live
D. want to share the idea of longing for modern life
Music is an international language. The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere.
Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers (扬声器) and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.
Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, politics, and activities of the American people. But most of the radio broadcast is music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
Besides pop music, there are two other kinds of music that is important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. The other is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
1. In America, every student likes ______.
A. folk music B. country music C. pop music D. western music
2. According to the passage, most of the car radio broadcast is ______.
A. sports B. the weather C. politics D. music
3.What do the cowboys do according to the passage?
A. They sell cows. B. They watch cows.
C. They sing and dance. D. They travel around.
4. How many kinds of music are mentioned in the passage?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Music in America B. Music Listeners
C. Cowboys in America D. International Language
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
Animals perform many useful and amusing jobs. Dogs are particularly valuable in guiding the blind, 31 property(财产), finding 32 people, and hunting criminals(犯人). Horses are used in guarding herds(牧群)，carrying men in lands where there are no roads, and helping farmers work their land. Pigeons(鸽子) 33 to carry messages. Wild animals from the jungles, forests and seas are very popular performers in 34 and motion pictures(电影). People realize that, 35 animals may not have the same intelligence(智慧) as 36 , they are clever enough to learn certain things.
The first thing a dog is taught is to 37 . It should not 38 too 1ong for him to learn commands. Simple orders, such as “sit, lie down，stay there, come here, ” can 39 be taught by a child.
Training a dog to be a watchdog often produces unexpected results. Some dogs quickly learn the difference 40 unwanted people and friends. This is 41 their masters welcome friends and invite them into their houses. However, some dogs will always 42 the postman who comes to 43 letters. One explanation for this behavior is that, although the postman comes to the house often, he never 44 the house. Therefore, the dog thinks the postman is someone 45 is not wanted, but keeps 46 back anyway.
Dogs are extremely useful as 47 for blind people. When a dog has been properly trained, he will lead his blind master in the right direction and keep him 48 danger. For example, seeing eye dogs 49 a busy road when cars are coming, 50 their masters command(命令) them to do so.
1. A. saving B. helping C. making D. protecting
2. A. lost B. losing C. loss D. missed
3. A. have long used B. have long been used
C. have long been using D. are long being used
4. A. cinemas B. theatres C. museums D. circuses(马戏团)
5. A. although B. as C. since D. because
6. A. children B. human being C. human beings D. students
7. A. obey B. order C. do D. study
8. A. spend B. take C. use D. want
9. A. still B. though C. enough D. even
10. A. from B. between C. among D. with
11. A. because of B. due to C. why D. because
12.A. beat B. protest C. attack D. eat
13. A. deliver B. give C. post D. fetch
14. A. enters B. enters into C. gets D. arrives to
15. A. he B. who C. whom D. which
16. A. come B. to come C. from coming D. coming
17. A. companies B. companions(同伴) C. men D. colleagues(同事)
18. A. out from B. out C. out of D. out by
19. A. learn never to across B. learn to never cross
C. never learn to cross D. learn never to cross
20. A. even B. if C. even if D. because
---How about putting some pictures into the report?
---________ A picture is worth a thousand words.
A. I don’t think so. B. Why not? C. Thank you. D. It doesn’t matter.
One minute she burst into ________ and the next burst out ________. We just couldn’t catch her mood at any moment.
A. crying; laughter B. tears; laughter C. tears; laughing D. crying; laughing
We all agree that the products of this factory are of better ________.
A. quality B. quantity C. principal D. identity
