閱讀理解.

　　We have just climbed out of a spaceship onto the surface of the moon. Behind us is the ship, half in the sunlight and half in the deep shadow. A few miles ahead is a wall of mountains against the black sky. And there, as though resting on the mountains, is a great ball of light, beautifully coloured in blue and brown with a patch of dazzling white at the top. It is our own far-away world----the earth.

　　We take step and rise like prize jumpers-up, float and down again. Hopping (or jumping ) carefully, we explore the valleys, the sloping crater(火山口) walls, the shadowy crater floors.

　　Not a sound can be heard----there is no air to carry sound. No wind, there are no smells. There are no plants or animals. There is nothing but rock and dust, blinding sunlight and cold black shadows.

1．This passage is written as though ________.

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A．you were on the earth

B．you were on the moon with the writer

C．the writer were on the earth looking at the moon

D．the writer were on the moon

2．The great ball above the mountain is ________.

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3．To move on the moon man would ________.

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4．The moon is a silent world because it has no ________ in it.

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5．In exploring the moon's surface, you would not find ________.

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閱讀理解.

　　We have just climbed out of a spaceship onto the surface of the moon. Behind us is the ship, half in the sunlight and half in the deep shadow. A few miles ahead is a wall of mountains against the black sky. And there, as though resting on the mountains, is a great ball of light, beautifully coloured in blue and brown with a patch of dazzling white at the top. It is our own far-away world----the earth.

　　

　　We take step and rise like prize jumpers-up, float and down again. Hopping (or jumping ) carefully, we explore the valleys, the sloping crater(火山口) walls, the shadowy crater floors.

　　

　　Not a sound can be heard----there is no air to carry sound. No wind, there are no smells. There are no plants or animals. There is nothing but rock and dust, blinding sunlight and cold black shadows.

　　

(1) This passage is written as though ________.

[　　]

A．you were on the earth

B．you were on the moon with the writer

C．the writer were on the earth looking at the moon

D．the writer were on the moon

(2) The great ball above the mountain is ________.

[　　]

(3) To move on the moon man would ________.

[　　]

(4) The moon is a silent world because it has no ________ in it.

[　　]

(5) In exploring the moon's surface, you would not find ________.

[　　]

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee. I was tired so I went straight to my hotel.

A big, heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. Something about the way he moved made me think of a hungry dog looking for a bone. He had a big, fat, red face and a sleepy expression in his eyes. He introduced himself as Wentworth Caswell – Major Wentworth Caswell – from “a fine southern family”. Caswell pulled me into the hotel’s barroom and yelled for a waiter. We ordered drinks. While we drank, he talked continually about himself, his family, his wife and her family. He said his wife was rich. He showed me a handful of silver coins that he pulled from his coat pocket.

By this time, I had decided that I wanted no more of him. I said good night.

I was born in the south myself. But I live in New York now. I write for a large magazine. My boss had asked me to go to Nashville. The magazine had received some stories and poems from a writer in Nashville, named Azalea Adair. The editor liked her work very much. The publisher asked me to get her to sign an agreement to write only for his magazine.

I left the hotel at nine o’clock the next morning to find Miss Adair. It was still raining. As soon as I stepped outside I met Uncle Caesar. He was a big, old black man with fuzzy gray hair. Uncle Caesar was wearing the strangest coat I had ever seen. It must have been a military officer’s coat. It was very long and when it was new it had been gray. But now rain, sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors. Only one of the buttons was left. It was yellow and as big as a fifty cent coin.

Uncle Caesar stood near a horse and carriage. He opened the carriage door and said softly, “Step right in, sir. I’ll take you anywhere in the city.”

“I want to go to 861 Jasmine Street,” I said, and I started to climb into the carriage. But the old man stopped me. “Why do you want to go there, sir?”

“What business is it of yours?” I said angrily. Uncle Caesar relaxed and smiled. “Nothing, sir. But it’s a lonely part of town. Just step in and I’ll take you there right away.”

861 Jasmine Street had been a fine house once, but now it was old and dying. I got out of the carriage.

“That will be two dollars, sir,” Uncle Caesar said. I gave him two one-dollar bills. As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper. Also, the upper right hand corner was missing.

1.The narrator （故事的敘述者）got to Nashville probably _______.

A. in the morning   B. at noon    C. in the afternoon    D. in the evening

2. The narrator didn’t like Caswell mainly because of ________.

A. his appearance   B. his family    C. the way he talked and behaved  D. his wife

3. The publisher told the narrator to go to Nashville ______.

A. to get a writer to sign an agreement for his magazine

B. to collect some stories and poems from a writer

C. to look for good writers for his magazine

D. to visit his old friend Azalea Adair

4. Uncle Caesar’s strange coat ________.

A. was worn by a military officer      B. was a new gray coat

C. was an old yellow raincoat         D. had only one button left

5. From the question “Why do you want to go there, sir?”, we guess that Uncle Caesar _______.

A. wanted to know why the narrator wanted to go there

B. knew the place and was concerned about the narrator 

C. would charge two dollars for taking the narrator there

D. must have lived in the neighbourhood before

 

閱讀表達(dá)（共5個(gè)小題，每小題2分， 共10分）

When Dan Shaw gets up from the sofa in his home, Cuddles is never far away. When he wants to go outside, he doesn’t take Cuddles out for a walk—Cuddles takes him for a walk. Cuddles is clearly no ordinary family pet. It is a two-foot-high miniature horse and serves as the guiding eyes of Shaw, who is blind.

       When Shaw lost his sight, his wife suggested he apply for（申請(qǐng)） a guide dog. Shaw, an anima lover, said he couldn’t bear to part with a dog(which usually lives about eight to ten years)and get used to a new one, perhaps several times in his life.

       Then Shaw heard of a program about the tiny guide horses. He learned that the horse possess many qualities that make them an excellent choice for guiding people. They are clean, friendly, smart and have great memories. They can be trained to remain calm in noisy and crowded places. Best of all, they live for 25-35 years, which would enable Shaw to have the same guide friend for most or all of his life.

       Shaw immediately applied to be and was accepted as the first person to receive a guide horse. The instant he met Cuddles, he knew he was making the right choice. Then he began his training.

       Through training, Shaw and Cuddles learned to find their way on busy streets, step over curbs(便道沿兒)and find elevator buttons. Cuddles even show its ability to step in front of Shaw and block him, to prevent him from walking into a dangerous situation The little horse also expertly led Shaw through busy shopping malls. They got along without any difficulties. Now Shaw is confident that Cuddles will change his life for the better.

1. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “miniature” in Paragraph 1?(No more than 2 words)

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2.Why didn’t Shaw want to choose a dog as his guide?(No more than 15 words)

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3. What does Paragraph 3 mainly tell us? (No more than 10 words)

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4. How does Shaw feel about his future life with the help of Cuddles? (No more than 10 words)

    ________________________________________________________________

5. In your opinion, what is the ideal(理想的) relationship between man and animals? (No more than 20 words)

    ________________________________________________________________

 

 

It has always been said that women are not good drivers, because they simply don’t have very good driving ability. On the other hand, most car accidents happen to men; very few happen to women.

From this, we can see that women are much more careful while driving. Another very interesting fact is that in the past, women preferred to let their husbands be the only driver in the family rather than have a driving license. Somehow they were prevented from making this step in their life, but nowadays there are many women that want to pass their driving tests at an early age.

However, we have to admit that men are more skillful drivers than women, but this does not mean that a woman cannot become a good driver by accumulating (積累) experience. So more and more teenagers and women around the age of thirty now want to pass their driving tests. While taking their driving lessons, they also have a number of special lessons with their parents or somebody in the family that has a driving license. This is just to improve their driving abilities and help them to pass the tests more easily.

To conclude, we can say that women are not such bad drivers. They just need more experience than men in order to be able to drive well. And on the other hand, there are a number of women that show better driving skills than the men around them.

1.

Compared with the past, nowadays many women ________.

A．prefer to have a driving license	B．have more accidents while driving
C．a(chǎn)re somehow prevented from driving	D．a(chǎn)re the only driver in the family

2.

What advantage do women have over men in driving?

A．They have more skills.	B．They are much more careful.
C．They know more traffic rules.	D．They have more driving experience.

3.

What can we infer from the passage?

A．Teenage girls cannot take driving tests.

B．Men didn’t allow women to drive in the past.

C．With enough experience, women can become good drivers.

D．Women can easily pass their tests by taking driving lessons.

4.

The passage mainly talks about ________.

A．women and their driving ability

B．men and their driving ability

C．why men are better drivers than women

D．why more women like to have a driving license