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(一)
Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every people subscribe(訂閱) to as many as two or three why do people read newspapers?
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulersoverthrown (推翻) or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another.
The news passed by word of mouth and was never y we can read in our newspapersof important events that occur in far away countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other e are weather reports, radios, television and film guides, book reviews, storiesand, of course, bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention totheir pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it isworth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the thosewho produce newspapers, advertisements are also very y earned from advertise-ments makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashion as well as a small butvery popular section on jokes and cartoons ( 漫畫).
56、What is the text about?
rtisements are the most important part in newspapers.
introduces newspapers past and today and its contents.
e is a lot of useful information on newspapers.
le like newspapers very much.
57、The habit of reading newspapers is __________.
mmon in the world
popular in U.S.A.
spread in the world
d among a few families
58、In the past, news was __________.
by telegraph
ed from one person to another
by letter
by telephone
59、The money spent on advertisements is __________.
ed
much
hwhile
ess
60、The section on jokes and cartoons is __________.
only by children
no value
helpful
by many people
(二)
"New York City is not America." That's what American friends are sure to you when you ar-rive."You must see Boston, visit Niagara Falls, go to Virginia, fly down to Florida, and so on;but first, of course, you will want to see New is not the capital city of the United States( that is Washington, D.C., where the President lives) or even the capital city of New York State(that is Albany), but many people call it 'the greatest city on earth'."
The five parts, or boroughs, of New York City are Manhattan, Queen, Bronz, Richmond ough Manhattan is not all of New York, it is the heart of the is an island,
which is only about 13 miles long and 2 miles the air its shape lookslike a long finger,and from the sea it's just like the picture we all e tall, straight buildings--the skyscrap-ers-packed so close together on that island of rocks are sometimes seen in the distance through aveil of early morning have imagined it so often that now it's difficult to believe thisbeautiful sight is real, and unless your heart is as hard as a stone, excitement will make it beat a lit-tle aps "greatest", "tallest", "longest", "biggest", "brightest", are words you willfind most often in the city guide books.
61、How many places in America are mentioned in this passage besides New York City?
A.6.
B.4.
C.7.
D.5.
62、Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
attan is the centre of New York City.
York City is made up of five parts.
York looks like a long finger from the air.
attan is an island.
63、In the second paragraph, "excitement will make it beat a little faster" here "it" refersto __________.
beautiful sight
heart
York City
(三)
Pepys and his wife Jane had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666.
They were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, andwhile they were busy they saw the glow(微弱的光)of a fire start in the 3 o'clock on theSunday morning, its glow had become so bright that Jane woke her husband to watch sslipped on his dressing-gown and went to the window to watch seemed fairly far away, andafter a time he went back to he got up in the moming, it looked, though the fire wasdying down, as though he could still see some he set to work to tidy his room and puthis things back where he wanted them.
While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was a bad one;hundreds of houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still s wentout to see for went to the Tower of London and climbed upon a high part of the build-ing so that he could see what was there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, abad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were man of the Tower told himthat the fire had started in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane(小巷) ; the baker's house had caughtfire from the over-heated oven(烤箱) and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses inthe narrow the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most ofthe old city and ended, as it is said, at Pie Comer.
64、What is the passage about?
Great Fire of London.
was the first to discover the fire.
Pepys was doing during the fire.
losses caused by the fire.
65、They were up very late because __________.
was Sunday morning
were not very sleepy
were preparing for the dinner
saw the great fire start
66、What was Pepys doing when his wife told him about the fire?
was asleep.
was writing something.
was putting things back.
was looking out of the window.
67、In the sentence" Pepys slipped on his dressing-gown."" slip on" means __________.
be wearing
be pushing
take off
put on
68、Why did the flames spread quickly ?
oven became very hot.
houses were close together.
baker did nothing to stop it.
baker's house was burning quickly.
