The Antarctica is actually a desert.
The Antarctica is all ice all the year. The warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero at the South Pole. Explorers(探险家) used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of snowfalls each year. That is less than half an inch of water. Ten times that much moisture(水分) falls in parts of the Sahara.
The little snow that falls in Antarctica never melts(融化). It continues to pile up deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about eighty feet deep, it is turned to ice by the weight of the snow above it.
1. Antarctica is called a desert because it _____.
A. is sandy
B. has the same temperature as a desert
C. has little moisture
D. all of the above
2. The Antarctica has _____.
A. ten times as much moisture as the Sahara
B. the same amount of moisture as the Sahara
C. about one-tenth the moisture of the Sahara
D. none of these
3. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it _____.
A. never stops falling
B. piles up year after year
C. never melts
D. Both B and C
4. The best title for this passage is “_____”
A. A Strange Continent
B. The Antarctica—An Ice Desert
C. Snowfall at the South Pole
D. The World’s Greatest Desert
Oxford is a very old town on the River Thames, about 60 miles from London. Unlike modern university towns, where you usually find the university on the edge of the town, or on its own campus(校园), Oxford’s center is the university; and around the crossroads at the very heart of Oxford, Carfax, there are grey stone colleges and other university buildings. In the center you can also find interesting old restaurants. There are a lot of churches, and few really large and interesting buildings, such as Ashmolean Museum, the round library, the Bodleain and the Radcliff Camera. Like all English towns, there are parks. The Parks is the home of university cricket(板球). In the summer months, as you leave the center and go towards the edge of Oxford you can see industrial areas in one direction; and in another, beautiful suburbs(郊区). There is, in fact, quite a lot of industry in Oxford.
1. The passage mainly introduces to us _____ .
A. an old industrial center.
B. well-known university.
C. a famous university town.
D. newly developed town.
2. Visitors to Oxford will find that _____ .
A. the university is also the town center.
B. one of the crossroads is called Carfax.
C. the university is on the edge of the town.
D. most buildings are modern and interesting.
3. What’s the special about The Parks?
A. All towns in Britain have parks like this.
B. It is the only park in Oxford.
C. It’s the home of Oxford sportsmen.
D. It is related to a popular game.
When you watch a movie in the cinema, you may wonder how “the moving pictures” is made and where the voices, and noises and music come from. Now here is the answer.
In modern times, the middle part of a cinema film has lots of small photographs, each one of which is different from the one before it. Each photograph is brought in front of a strong light, and there it stops for a very small part of a second. This photograph, therefore, appears on the screen, and we see it. Then the light is covered and the next photograph is moved to the position in the front of the strong light. Meanwhile, the metal cover turns away from the light. Thus, the second photograph is shown on the screen. This is done again and again, twenty-four times a second, and we think we are watching a moving picture on the screen. But nothing on the screen actually moves. ”The moving picture” is in fact made up of a lot of bits. We see about 86,000 different pictures every hour, but none of them moves.
The voices, noises and music are recorded on the side of the cinema film. The record looks like marks of strange shapes. The side of the film passes in front of another light, and the rays of light which pass through change as the marks change. These marks have been made from the voices and other sounds of the people and events in front of the cinema when the film is being made. The marks may be considered as “printed sounds”.
1. When a cinema film is shown, how long does each photograph appear on the screen?
A. One twenty-third of a second.
B. One twenty-fourth of a second
C. A few seconds
D. One thirty-fifth of a second.
2. Why can we see pictures moving on the screen?
A. We see about 86,000 different pictures every hour.
B. Each picture is a little different from the former.
C. Photographs change quickly.
D. Both B and C.
3. What is a cinema film made up of?
A. Small photographs and a strong light.
B. Small photographs and the sounds.
C. A lot of bits.
D. Voices and photographs.
4. Which is the true about the sound record?
A. It sounds strange.
B. It looks as irregular marks.
C. It is printed in the middle of a film.
D. It is made while the film is being shown on the screen.
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，共40分）。
Live Music—Late Night Jazz
Enjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He is known to play well into the early hours, so don’t want to get much sleep.
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PLACE: The Jazz Club DATES:15—23 June PRICE: RMB100—150 TIME: 10 p.m. till late! TEL: 4668736 |
Scottish dancing is nice and easy to learn. The wonderful dance from England will be given.
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PLACE: Jack Stein’s DATES:10—20 May PRICE: RMB150 TIME: 7--10 p.m. TEL: 4021877 |
Shows – Anhui Museum
There are 12, 000 pieces on the show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history.
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PLACE: Anhui Museum DATES:30Mar.—30 June PRICE:RMB60(RMB30 for students) TEL: 4886888 TIME: Mon.—Fri. 9a.m.---5 p.m. Weekends 9 a.m.---9 p.m. |
Your pen friend is coming from Australia to your city for a holiday. You send him this E-mail to tell his something about the hotels.
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ROSE ＨＯＴＥＬ |
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ＰＲＩＣＥＳ（a night） |
ＰＲＩＣＥＳ（a night） |
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1 Oct.—31Dec. |
REM198 |
RMB168 |
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1 Jan.—31Mar. |
RMB178 |
RMB148 |
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RMB218 |
RMB188 |
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RMB248 |
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TEL：4686788 E-mail: Li Hong @163.com
1. If you want to watch dancing, you can call _____ .
A. 4668736 B. 4021877 C. 4886888 D. 4686788
2. You can see the whole of Chinese history at _____ in April in Anhui Museum.
A. 3 p.m. every day B. 9 p.m. from Monday to Friday
C. 7 a.m. at the weekends D. 7 p.m. every day
3. You can enjoy _____ at Jack Stein’s.
A. American Jazz B. Scottish C. 12,000 pieces on show D. yourself all night
4. Sun Hotel and Rose Hotel are open for _____ months of the year.
A. nine B. ten C. eleven D. twelve
The girl teacher had to shout to make herself _____ because of the noisy classroom.
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A．hear |
B．hearing |
C．heard |
D．to hear |
. Why _____ so many money recently? I am bored to see you.
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A．are you borrowing |
B．have you been borrowing |
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C．have you borrowed |
D．did you borrow |
