My brother, Henry, has a very good job at a bank. I couldn't believe him when he told me that he had decided to leave there. I tried to make him change his mind, but I failed. “You should reconsider your decision (決定),” I said. “You have already spent five years in the bank and you could have a wonderful future (將來). You might become a bank manager (經(jīng)理) by the time you are thirty-five.”

　　“I know,” Henry answered. “I have got no complaints (抱怨) with the bank. It is a pleasant job. The bank manager told me that my future was excellent (杰出的).”

　　“Then why do you want to leave?” I asked.

　　“It's the money,” Henry said.

　　“But you are getting a good salary (工資),” I answered.

　　“I don't mean that,” Henry said. “What do I do in the bank? Well, at the moment all I do is to count money. I find it very depressing (壓抑).”

　　“What is depressing about counting money?” I asked.

　　“You don't understand,” Henry answered. “I enjoy counting my own money, but I hate counting other people's!

(1) The writer wanted to know ________.

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A．why his brother did in the bank

B．how long his brother had worked at the bank

C．why his brother had decided to leave the bank

D．when his brother would become a bank manager

(2) His brother did not enjoy ________.

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A．working in a pleasant place

B．keeping happy hours

C．getting a good salary

D．counting other people's money

(3) In the sentence “You should reconsider your decision”, “reconsider” means ________.

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(4) From what the writer said we know that the bank paid his brother ________ for his work.

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A．quite a lot of money

B．a(chǎn)s much money as the manager's

C．no money

D．not much money

(5) The best title (題目) for this story is ________.

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I will give the message to him __________he comes back.

閱讀理解

　　The game is played by two teams. There must be eleven players in each team.

　　The field must be about 100m long and 73m wide. There are two goals, 7.32m long and 2.44m high.

　　To score a goal, a player must put the ball into the other team’s goal. They may use their feet, heads or other parts of the body, but they must not touch the ball with their hands. Only one oil each team, the goal-keeper, may use his hands.

　　This is played on a court 18m long and 9m wide. The net is 2.44m high for men and 2.24m for women. There are two teams and there are usually six players in each team.

　　The players try to make the ball hit the ground on the other side of the net. They may use their hands, fists or arms, but they must not catch the hall or hold it while playing.

　　The court must be 26m long and 14m wide. There can be ten players in a team but not more than five players in each team may play at one time. The players must not change until the referee allows them to leave the court.

　　To score a point a player must throw the ball into the other team’s basket.

　　Players may throw the ball, but they must not carry it. A player must not touch another player.

　　After 20 minutes play there must be a rest period for ten minutes. Then there is another period of 20 minutes before the game ends.

1．How big is a football field?

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A．7.32m long and 2.44m high.

B．100m long and 73m wide.

C．107.32m long and 75.44m wide.

D．26m long and 14m wide.

2．The volleyball players can only ________ while playing.

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A．catch the hall

B．hold the ball

C．use their hands, fists or arms

D．use their hands

3．Each basketball team can have ________ players at most.

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4．What’s the Chinese for referee in the passage?

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A．隊(duì)長　　B．教練　　C．裁判　　D．觀眾

5．Which of the following statement is NOT TRUE?

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A．In a football match, only one person can use his hands.

B．The volleyball net is 2.44m high for men.

C．The basketball team will score when they throw the ball into the other team’s basket.

D．In a basketball match, twenty minutes is a period

閱讀理解

　　I wonder if there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow (彩虹) in the sky. It is so beautiful.

　　There is a story, saying that whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold. Of course it is not true. Neither you could find the pot of gold, nor could you ever find its end. No matter how far you run, it always seems far away.

　　A rainbow is not a thing that we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower. It is only the effect (結(jié)果) for light shining on raindrops. The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colours which we see.

　　It is called a rainbow perhaps because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow (弓).

　　That is why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky. We see rainbows only when there is rain in the air and the sun is shining brightly through the clouds. Every rainbow has many colours in the same order. The first or the top colour is always red, next comes orange, then green, and last of all blue. A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.

(1) Children like rainbows because ________ .

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A. they are beautiful

B. they are like bows

C. they can find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow

D. they are good to crops

(2) We can not feel ________ with our hands.

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A. gold

B. a flower

C. a rainbow

D. a raindrop

(3) We can see a rainbow ________ .

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A. when it is raining heavily

B. when it is snowing

C. in a clear sky

D. when it becomes fine immediately after raining

(4) Which of the following is not right?

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A. A rainbow is always far away from us.

B. A rainbow is the effect of light shining on raindrops.

C. A rainbow is the product of human beings.

D. A rainbow is one of the wonders of nature.

(5) The first colour of a rainbow is always ________ .

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A. yellow

B. red

C. green

D. blue

　　A new world champion（冠軍）has been born. After his 18th birthday, Ding Junhui b 1 Stephen Hendry, a seven-time world champion, and won first prize at last. This was the first time a C 2 has won a major snooker（斯諾克）champion.

s 4 to play snooker at the age of eight. By the time he was 10, n 5 in the city could play better than him. Then his father wanted to let Ding make snooker his career（職業(yè)）. Two years l 6 , his family moved to Dongguan of Guangdong, a city n 7 Hong Kong, where snooker is more p 8 To help him, the family sold e 9 , even their small house. Luckily, Ding has been successful and the p 10 of the Chinese people now. Ding has created（創(chuàng)造）history.