阅读下面A、B、C三篇短文。要求根据短文内容，从每题所给的选项中选择最佳的一项。

A

TV PROGRAMMES（节目）
Channel (频道)  1	Channel  2
18:00 Children’s programme	18:15 English classroom
18:30 Learning to use computers	19:00 TV play
19:00 News	20:30 Sports
19:30 Weather report	21:10 Foreign arts
20:00 Popular music	22:00 Animal world
21:00 Talk show	23:05 Only in China
22:30 Around the world	23:40 On TV next week

(   ) 1. If you want to enjoy a football match, you’d better watch TV at ______.

  　A.19:00 on Channel 1　　B. 22:00 on Channel 2

　　C. 20:00 on Channel 2　 D. 22:30 on Channel 1

(    ) 2. How long does the programme TV play last?

　　A. Two hours           B. 90 minutes

　　C. One and a half hours   D. 150 minutes

(    ) 3. You may watch the TV programme at 18:15 on Channel 2 if you want to ____.

　　A. know what happened in the USA

　　B. learn English

　　C. know something about the animals in Canada

　　D. learn how to use a computer

(    ) 4. Which of the following programmes may tell us about the monkeys in Japan?

　　A. Popular music　　B. Only in China

　　C. Talk show　　　　D. Animal world

　　参考答案：  1. C  2. B  3. B  4. D

B

　　A strange thing happened to Henry yesterday. He was on a bus and wanted to get off. So he stood up and rang the bell. To make sure the driver heard him, he rang it twice, but the bus didn’t stop, and the conductor came and shouted at him. The conductor was so angry and spoke so fast that Henry didn’t understand a word. The bus stopped at the next bus stop and Henry got off. As he got off he heard someone say: “I think he is a foreigner, for he doesn’t know the rule here.”

　　When he got home, he told his wife about his story on the bus. “How many times did you ring the bell?” she asked. “Twice.” said Henry.

　　“Well, that tells the driver to go on.” his wife explained (解释). “Only the conductor is allowed (被允许) to ring the bell twice.”

　　Henry nodded. “I see.” he said.

(   ) 1. Usually when people wanted to stop at the bus stop in the town, they ____.

　　A. shouted

　　B. asked the conductor to ring the bell twice

　　C. rang the bell twice

　　D. rang the bell once

(   ) 2. Henry rang the bell twice in order to ___.

　　A. make the conductor angry

　　B. make the people on the bus laugh

　　C. let the driver stop the bus

　　D. let people know that he was a foreigner

(   ) 3. ___ knew the rule of ringing on a bus.

　　A. Most of the native (本地的) people in the town

　　B. Everyone in the town

　　C. Nobody in the town

　　D. No one but Henry’s wife

(   ) 4.---What does the word “nod” at the end of the story mean?

　　　---Maybe it means “_____”.

　　A.      move one’s head up and down

　　B.      get angry and cry

　　C.      think that one doesn’t agree

　　D.  feel sorry about something

　　参考答案：  1. D  2. C  3. B  4. A

C

　　Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices, factories or schools every day by train, car or bus, and this means they have to get up earlier in the morning and reach home later in the evening.
　　One benefit（好处） of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat（公寓） in London without garden costs quite a lot of money. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden.
Then, in the country one can be free from the noise and hurry of the town. Of course, one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, but one can sleep better at night, and, during week-ends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the nice clean air of the country. If one likes gardens, one can spend one's free time planting, watering and doing a lot of other work in the garden.
　　Some people, however, are not interested in country things; for them, happiness can only be found in the town, with its cinemas, beautiful shops and busy streets. Such people would feel their life was not worth（值得） living if they had to live life outside London. A walk in one of the parks and a visit to the sea every summer is all the things they want.

( ) 1. Many people who work in London like to live outside it better than inside it because ______.

　　A. they can get up earlier in the morning

　　B. the houses inside it are much more expensive(贵)

　　C. they can enjoy beautiful shops and busy streets

　　D. they like to visit the sea in summer

( ) 2. Some people don't like to live in the country because they enjoy ______.

　　A. seeing films, doing shopping or walking in the park

　　B. all kinds of jobs in their gardens

　　C. getting up early in the morning and reaching home late

　　D. going to offices, factories or schools by car, train or bus

( ) 3. Which do you think is the best title of the passage?______.

　　A. The Benefit of Living Outside London

　　B. The People who Live in London

　　C. The Benefit of Living Inside London

　　D. Lives Inside and Outside London

参考答案：1. B 2. A 3. D

What do you know about the sea?

　　What do you know about the sea? Some people know it, but others don't. The sea looks beautiful on a fine sunny day and when there is a strong wind, it can be very rough（剧烈的）. What other things do we know about the sea? Of course, the sea is very big. In the world there is more sea than land. When you swim in the sea, you will find that the water is salty（咸的）. Rivers carry salt from the land to the sea. Some places of sea are more salty than other places. Do you know Dead Sea? Fish can't live in it.

Questions:

　　1.Not______people see the sea.

　　2.The sea looks beautiful on______day.

　　3.The sea is ______, and the land is small.

　　4.Fish can't live in Dead Sea because it is too______.

　　5.______carry salt from the land to the sea.

Answers:

　　1.all 2.sunny 3.big 4.salty 5.Rivers

Shark

　　Swimmers at a Sydney rock pool were treated to an unusual sight this week - a man coming out of the water with a shark shaking from his arm.

　　Russian immigrant Andranik Markossian had been snorkeling(潜泳) at local Bronte beach Sunday when the yard-long shark nearly swam into him, turning just inches away from his mask.

　　Markossian thought it was just a fish, so he reached out and touched its tail. But when he did, it spun around again and bit him on the arm.

　　Markossian, in turn, kept his grasp on the tail. He said, “Because I thought, if I let go, it will bite me more.”

　　With the two locked in a strange embrace(拥抱), Markossian decided to walk to shore, there he would have a better chance of getting the shark to release itself.

　　When Markossian got on shore, the shark still refused to give up its grip. With shock starting to set in, he lay down. Fortunately, his partner Marina Godess, saw him.

　　“When I first saw it I thought that he was just showing me a fish and showing off,”she said. “But when he was on the beach and I realized what it was, I was more scared than he was.”

　　After five minutes of trying to pry open (撬开) the shark’s jaws, a lifeguard finally cut off its head. "It looked like it was a really good bite, it got on real tight," lifeguard Mark McEvoy told The Associated Press.

　　Markossian will have a permanent(永久的) scar on his right forearm from the shark bite, but he required no stitches(缝补) and left the hospital a few hours after the attack.

　　Markossian says the attack won’t stop him from swimming, but regrets the shark had to die. “If they could have removed it without cutting the head off, I would have preferred it,”he said. “All animals are our friends. I would say this shark was just unlucky.”

　　Markossian’s family, meanwhile probably doesn’t regret the death. After lifeguards removed the shark, he asked to keep it - and served the nice meat to his family for dinner.

　　Markossian’s shark attack apparently hasn’t discouraged many people from swimming at the popular Bronte rockfaces. Locals were back there today, and divers say there are hundreds of such sharks in the area.

　　Swimmer Val Tomlin said, “if you’re going to swim in the ocean you have to take that risk.”

　　The manager of the Australian Shark Attack File at Australia’s Taronga Zoo, John West, said this kind of shark is known to be aggressive and to attack frequently, but never fatally(致命地).

　　Rodd Stapley, of the Sydney Aquarium said, “They react very quickly and they just bite. We’ve had divers been bitten by them and you actually have to pry the jaws open.”

　1. The suitable title of this passage may be _________.

　　A. A Dangerous Fish ---- Shark

　　B. A Fatal Snorkeling

　　C. Shark Bites Man, But Man Bites Back - Eventually

　　D. Man is Stronger Than Any Animals in the World

　2. What are the characters of sharks except that __________.

　　A. they often attack humans

　　B. they are aggressive and attack frequently

　　C. they react very quickly and they just bite

　　D. they kill humans by biting them tightly

　3. Which is the correct order of the details according to story?

　　① the shark bit Andranik Markossian on his arm

　　② Andranik Markossian tried to pry out its mouth

　　③ the lifeguards cut off its head

　　④ Andranik Markossian reached out to catch the fish

　　⑤ they embraced tightly

　　⑥ Andranik Markossian enjoyed the shark with his family

　　A. ④①②⑤③⑥

　　B. ⑥①③④⑤②

　　C. ④①⑤②③⑥

　　D. ⑤①④②③⑥

　4. The underlined part With shock starting to set in may mean _______.

　　A. being in the state of terror

　　B. being unconscious

　　C. with his body shocking

　　D. terribly worn out

Answers:  C D A B