阅读理解
Many people have to work on the weekend. Some people do not mind. Others think it is terrible.
One man thinks that working on the weekend can be dangerous. He is Graham Coates. Mr Coates works in an office in Brighton, England.
On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. When he got on the lift(电梯), it stopped between floors. Mr Coates could not get out of the lift. He started to shout, but no one heard him. Then Mr. Coats remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going to come to work until Tuesday.
There was nothing for him to do. He had to wait until one of his workmates came to work and found him. With nothing to eat or drink, Mr Coats ended up sleeping for most of the day.
Now Mr. Coates says, "I only use lifts if they have telephones in them."Mr. Coates thinks working on the weekend is_____.
A.interesting | B.terrible | C.happy | D.unhappy |
Mr. Coates stayed in the lift for_____.
A.about twenty hours | B.nearly two days |
C.one week | D.more than sixty hours |
When Mr. Coates got out of the lift he_____.
A.was cold, weak, hungry and tired |
B.wouldn't work there any more |
C.said "I only use lifts if they have telephones in them." |
D.went home at once |
Why could Mr. Coates not get out of the lift? Because _____.
A.it was broken | B.it was the weekend |
C.it was in an office | D.it was a holiday |
In the lift, there was_________.
A.water | B.beer | C.telephone | D.nothing |
Mary 09∶47∶05 Hi! Nice to meet you, too! I’m a girl. My name is Mary Hand. My favorite color is yellow. And my telephone number is 965-4236. |
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Tom 09∶46∶11 Hi! Mary! Nice to meet you?I’m a boy. My name is Tom Brown. My favorite(最喜欢的) color is red. My telephone number is 783-6528. |
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根据表格内容,选择正确答案
Tom likes.
A、red B、yellow C、blue
The girl’s last name is.
A、Mary B、Brown C、Hand
The boy’s first name is.
A、Brown B、Tom C、Mary
Tom’s telephone number is.
A、783-5682 B、965-4236 C、783-6528
The boy and the girl are online(上网).
A、in the morning
B、in the afternoon
C、in the evening
阅读理解(二)(共5分)
Basketball players are usually very tall.Because they need to put the ball into the basket.Other sports players may be shorter than them.
Short people often have better balance(平衡)than tall people,so they don't fall over very often.In some sports the players must have good balance.For example,in table tennis,they don't need to have long legs to run fast!Some of the fast runners in the world are not very tall.Some people are tall and some are short.The tallest man in the world is 2.41 meters tall.Today young people in many countries grow taller than their parents.This is because they eat better than their parents.Good food can help children grow.
根据短文内容回答问题
Are all sports players tall?
Is it always better to be short than to be tall?
Do fast runners all have long legs?
How tall is the tallest man in the world?
Why do young people grow taller than their parents?
Mr Smith was in trouble those days. He drove a car for Mr Black, a rich businessman. He worked hard and the shopkeeper liked him. But he couldn't work when he drank too much. And once he almost fell into the river when he drove along the bridge. Mr Black become angry and was going to send him away. He had a big family and was afraid of it and promised(许诺) he would stop drinking at once. The man told him to wait to be dealt with(处置).
One Monday morning Mr Smith came into the office with two badly burnt ears.
"What happened to your ears?" asked Mr Black.
"Well," said the man." I went to watch a football match yesterday while my wife was ironing(熨) clothes. She had put the iron(熨斗) near the telephone before she went to cook supper. Our team lost the game and I felt sorry for it. As soon as I went into the sitting-room, the phone rang and I answered the iron!"
"And what happened to the other ear ?"
"When I put the iron down on the table, the telephone rang again!"
_____, so he almost drove the car into the river.
A、Mr Smith was not careful
B、Mr Smith drank too much
C、Mr Smith forget they were on the bridge
Mr Smith went to watch the football match on _______.
A、Monday B、Saturday C、Sunday
We can guess _________.
A、Mr Smith drank much after the match
B、Mr Smith was angry with his team
C、Mr Smith didn't drink those days
The _____ badly burned Mr Smith's ears.
A、telephone B、drinking C、iron
What would happen to Mr Smith?
A、He would go on driving for Mr Black.
B、He would never watch any match
C、Mr Black would send him away.
Is handwriting(书写) important? Yes, the 10-year-old girl Alyssa thinks so. She is a fifth-grade student from Mason County, the USA. She’s the champion(冠军) for her grade level in the National Handwriting Contest in 2012.
After she got the news, Alyssa was surprised that she could be the first. “I’m really happy,” she said. “I’m really surprised, too. I didn’t know I was that good.”
To enter (参加) the contest, each student had to write the sentence (句子) “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. It is a common English sentence, but it uses every letter of the English alphabet. Teachers were invited to be judges. They could decide who wins the contest. Alyssa enjoys handwriting, and wants to write adventure(冒险) stories when she gets older. “From the third grade we started learning handwriting,” Alyssa said. “All the letters look pretty. It makes me think of art.”
Alyssa is in Gradenow.
A、3 B、4 C、5
Alyssa won in the NationalContest.
A、Listening B、Reading C、Handwriting
Why do they choose the sentence in the contest?
A、Because it’s difficult to write.
B、Because it’s good for students’ reading.
C、Because it has 26 different letters.
The underlined word “judges” meansin Chinese.
A、评判员 B、嘉宾 C、指导员
Which of the following is TRUE?
A、Alyssa is 10 years old and she’s from the UK.
B、Alyssa was not surprised when she got the news.
C、Alyssa wants to write adventure stories when she gets older.
Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant(仆人). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine(酒) and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.
One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” With these words, he went out.
But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished(惩罚), so he drank the poison to kill himself.
In the story, _______ liked wine and good food very much.
A、the rich man B、the servant C、both A and B
The rich man_______who drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.
A、didn’t know B、wondered C、knew
The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because.
A、there was in fact poison in the bottles
B、he did not want the servant to drink his wine
C、he wanted to kill the servant
In fact, _______ ate all the nice food and drank the wine.
A、the servant B、cat C、the rich man
From the story, we know that the servant is very _______.
A、lazy B、bad C、clever