【題目】E

All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.

Reading is pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Every book stands by itself, like a one family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something, they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and the future and have their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too.

Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won't have fun. But if you put down a book you don't like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time — and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won't have suffered during the process.

【1】For a reader, the most important is to__________.

A. buy some cheap books easily.

B. get benefits from the books.

C. collect and treasure the books

D. promote good books.

【2】Why is reading fun according to paragraph 2?

A. The write tells a lot to readers.

B. Books are easy to understand.

C. Readers can be encouraged to think and imagine.

D. Readers can choose whatever to read.

【3】What benefits can we get from reading in the long term?

①finding out about the world;

②finding out about people in the books;

③finding about readers themselves;

④finding out about other books;

⑤finding out about sports

A. ①②③ B. ①②④ C. ②③④ D.③④⑤

【4】What of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. The pleasure of reading

B. The ways to make reading fun

C. How to improve your reading level

D. Reading good books

【題目】Strong typhoons hit this area very __________. Normally, they form and come here between July and August every year.

A. generally

B. regularly

C. usually

D. suddenly

【題目】Gunpowder,__________ we all know, was invented in ancient China.

A. it

B. which

C. as

D. that

【題目】Jenny was looking for a seat when, luckily, a man __________ and left.

A. took up

B. got up

C. shut up

D. set up

【題目】On hearing the news of our victory, we jumped ___________ excitement.

A. for

B. with

C. in

D. by

【題目】You say you’re old enough to stay out late on weekends while they say you have to be home early. 【1】______You say you’ve met some nice kids and you’d like to go out with them, but they say they’d like to see your friends first.

When you’re a teenager, it seems that every time you say “I want to”, they will certainly answer “No, you can’t.” Also, no part of your life is safe from the “prying eyes” of your parents. 15-year-old Debbie says, “My dad always wants to know where I am, what time I’m going to be home. Most parents do that. Do they have to know everything? 【2】______”

【3】_____ When something goes wrong, most parents just don’t believe in their children. Without asking why, they think their kids are wrong. And not many parents would allow their kids to choose for themselves.

【4】__________But remember that not too long ago you were really a child. Your parents still remember the childish mistakes you used to make. They want to protect you though you do not want them to do so. And when something seems to threaten your well-being, they worry.

So, if you want to get more freedom, please try to understand your parents and do not just lie. 【5】_____ If you want them to allow you to stay out late, don’t just say, “All the other kids can stay out late.” Tell them as much as you can about what you want to do and where you’ll be and why it’s important for you to stay out later ..., they might just say yes.

A. Yes, it is true that your parents sometimes treat you like a small child.

B. No one likes being troubled.

C. Try a more friendly way.

D. They should give us more freedom.

E. Young people further complain that their parents do not respect them.

F. You say you want to see that new film while they say you can’t see it.

G. They are willing to give you advice on your friends.

【題目】It was at 5 o'clock ___________ the visitors finally arrived at Pudong International Airport.

A. when

B. that

C. before

D. after

【題目】Gun control is a subject ___________ Americans have argued for a long time.

A. of which

B. with which

C. about which

D. into which

【題目】C

Doctors fighting malaria---one of the deadliest diseases on the planet--- may soon have a new affordable weapon in their smart phones. Researchers have found a way to use the phone's camera to detect the microorganism in the patient's blood that causes the disease.

According to the World Health Organization, almost 600,000 people died of malaria in 2013, making this mosquito-borne disease one of the deadliest in the world.

The saddest aspect of this calamity(災(zāi)難) is that it affects mostly young children.

Early detection of the infection is important for successful treatment. But since the first symptoms resemble ordinary flu, a microbiologist must look at a drop of a patient's blood under a microscope for a proper diagnosis.

Scientists in Britain have now developed a smart phone attachment called Xrapid, that turns the phone into a 200-power microscope, while the attached app---based on facial recognition software - quickly detects the parasitic protozoa（寄生原生物）in the blood smear（抹片）.

Jean Viry-Babel is the CEO of IanXen, the company that developed the app. He says it is cheap and works on the spot. "So we take a high-definition picture of a sample of blood. We separate the red blood cells from the rest---the white blood cells, the platelets(血小板)---and we start looking at each of the red blood cells individually," said Viry-Babel.

Viry-Babel says the app is affordable, easy to use and provides reliability of up to 98 percent. The only additional equipment required is an ordinary glass lab slide - called a "slate."

"There's only one button, which is called "Diagnose". So you put it on the slate and you put it on the dried blood, and you press diagnose and it tells you yes or no," he said.

Researchers say the field-testing of the device will begin in January and February in Tanzania, Benin and Indonesia --- while commercial use is scheduled to start by the end of March.

They also plan to expand the versatility（多功能性）of the new device---teaching it to recognize other diseases, such as tuberculosis and Lyme Disease.

【1】The text is meant to__________.

A. find a new way to treat malaria.

B. recommend a new smart phone.

C. promote a new program.

D. introduce a new device to detect disease.

【2】What makes malaria special in the world according to the passage?

A. There’s no way to detect it.

B. It mainly infects young kids.

C. It kills many people every year.

D. It is one of the deadliest disease.

【3】 Which of the following is Wrong according to paragraph 4?

A. The earlier the infection is detected, the more possible the patient is cured.

B. The first symptoms of malaria is like common flu.

C. A microbiologist can detect the infection without any equipment.

D. A patient’s blood should be provided if wanting a proper diagnosis

【4】What can we learn from Viry-Babel?

A. The app is cheap but must work in the lab.

B. The white cells and the platelets must be studied carefully.

C. The accuracy of the app is nearly a hundred percent.

D. The “Diagnose” button should function well with others.

【題目】The island is ___________ attractive in spring and autumn because of the pleasant weather in both seasons.

A. partly

B. merely

C. nearly

D. equally