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All the wisdom of the times, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us in books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure. The unluckiest people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I’m very interested in people and finding out about them. Some of the most amazing people I’ve met could only  be found in a writer’s imagination, then in his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends and new worlds.
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 writer’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(分开的), in some way they are connected with each other. The same ideas, or related(相关的) ones, appear in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in books, but with different solutions(解决方法) according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other. They connect the past, the present and the future and have their own generations (age groups), like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the end, 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(专注于) 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 suffer during the process.
Which of the following ideas may the writer of this article agree with?

A.You will never meet amazing people in your life unless you read.
B.You think actively instead of getting facts passively(被动地)when reading.
C.You will get much delight from any book that you are told to read.
D.You can relax yourself by reading because it involves little thinking.

What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A.We can often find something connected with ourselves in books.
B.Different writings at different times share the same characteristics.
C.The same problems will appear in different books with similar solutions.
D.Reading books which are written for your generation is more helpful to you.

What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?

A.To advise us to enjoy ourselves by reading.
B.To encourage us to make full use of libraries.
C.To encourage us to find out solutions in books.
D.To advise us to discuss books with other people.
科目 英语   题型 阅读理解   难度 中等
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My name is Max. I am twelve years old. I have many friends. Most of them are as old as I. Some are older. Some are younger.
My best friend is Bill. He lives near me. We go to the same school and we are in the same class. Bill helps me with my math homework. I help him with his English homework. Bill is taller than me. He is quite fat. He doesn’t like sports, so he doesn’t get much exercise. We both have black eyes, but Bill’s hair is longer. I like sports and I play football or go swimming every day. Every Sunday morning Bill and I play computer games. Sometimes I win. Sometimes he wins.
根据短文内容,从每小题后所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卷相应的位置用2B铅笔涂黑。
The main idea(主题) of the text is ________ .

A.Max has many friends B.Max and Bill go to the same school
C.Max and Bill are best friends D.Max and Bill like the same things

Most of Max’s friends are ________.

A.twelve years old B.older than Max
C.younger than Max D.thirteen years old

Max and Bill live _________.

A.near each other B.in different towns
C.in the same house D.in the school

Max helps Bill with __________.

A.his maths homework B.his English homework
C.His sports lessons D.His computer lessons

Max and Bill both like to___________.

A.swim B.play football C.play computer games D.play sports

A man has a cat. He likes her very much. At mealtime the cat sits at the table with him. The man eats with a knife and a fork(叉), but the cat eats from her plate. Sometimes, when she finishes her dish, her master(主人) will give her a little his food. He shares(分享) his meal with her. One day the cat is not at the table at mealtime.
“Ah! Where is my cat?” asks the man. His wife says, “Can’t you eat without her?”
So the meal begins without the cat. Before lunch is over, the cat rushes (冲)into the room and jumps into the chair quickly. She has two mice in her mouth, and before anyone can stop her, she drops(扔下) one into her own plate, and the other into her master’s plate.
“Dear me!” cries the woman, “A mouse is in your plate!”
“Hush(安静)!” says her husband. “This shows that she is a nice cat. She knows what friendship is. She hopes I share her dinner as I often share mine with her.
根据短文内容,判断以下句子的正误。你认为正确的句子请在答题卷相应位置涂 “T”,错误的涂“F”。
The master loves his cat very much.
The cat never shares her food with her master.
One day the cat is not at the table at mealtime.
The cat hurries(匆忙)back home with one mouse in her mouth when the master and his wife are having lunch.
The story tells us the cat also loves her master.

Who's building the new China? It's not the factory owners or the business men and women of China. It's someone else. We see them every day, They work day and night in the terrible working conditions and weather. They build the roads, the theaters, the cinemas and the supermarkets. They even clean up our rubbish. They are China’s migrant workers(民工).
More than 140 million workers have left their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in big cities all over China. They hope to be rich, but they realize they have many difficulties in making enough money. And one of the difficulties that these workers have is the pride and discrimination (歧视) from the people in cities. When night falls, everywhere I look I see the sad faces of the migrant workers. Many are living far away from those whom they love. Yes,they dress differently, they speak differently, and they have different habits, but they work hard .The people in cities regard them as outsiders, and most governments refuse to give them medical care and public schooling for their children. If China hopes to move into the future, many things need to change. The first is discrimination! We need to stop our discrimination against the migrant workers of China! They may not make as much money as some people in cities, but they are good honest people just trying to survive this game of life. These workers are very important and necessary to China’s economic (经济) development and have become an important force for the change of Chinese society. They are building the new China, so we should help them.
The journalist think __________ is building the new China.

A.the factory owners of China
B.the business men and women of China
C.the migrant workers of China
D.the people in Chinese cities

Which is the best title for the fourth and fifth paragraphs?

A.Moving forward
B.The discrimination from the people in cities.
C.How to make more money.
D.A lonely life.

The word “survive” here in Chinese means “________”.

A.活过来 B.挺过来 C.活得累 D.活得长

Which one is NOT TRUE about China's migrant workers according to the report?

A.They should be helped by us.
B.More than 1.4 billion migrant workers have been in big cities to make money.
C.They are not welcomed by the people in cities because they regard them as outsiders.
D.They have become quite important to the change of Chinese society.

What does the report mainly tell us? .

A.Though China's migrant workers work hard, their condition is terrible.
B.The condition of China's migrant workers needs to be changed for China's development.
C.The people in cities aren't polite to the migrant workers.
D.China's development only depends on the migrant workers.

Although I’m not in my childhood, I still prefer reading fairy tales. They often make me think of some special experiences and feelings. This summer I’ve reviewed this kind of tales, The Little Prince. It was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy tale by the French author Antoine.
“I”, the narrator(讲述者) of the story, is a pilot. His plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. The little prince lives on a small planet, and he grows a flower called ROSE there. One day they have a quarrel(争吵), so the little prince runs away. On his all-alone journey, he meets different kinds of people. From these people he gets a conclusion(结论) that grown-ups are strange. And with the help of the man he meets, he descends in the Sahara.
This book moved me a lot. It is not only a fairy tale for children and teenagers, but also for grown-ups.
The author loves fairy tales, because _____.

A.they are very interesting
B.they are not about real life
C.they make him or her think of special feelings
D.they often have a happy ending

The writer of The Little Prince is from _____.

A.France B.China
C.Canada D.America

The little prince runs away, because _______.

A.he doesn’t love his hometown
B.he is a naughty boy and loves adventures
C.he has made mistakes
D.he has quarrelled with ROSE

The underlined word “descend” means ______ in the passage.

A.end B.die
C.land D.fly

The best title for this article is “_____”.

A.A fair tale
B.My favourite fairy tale—The Little Prince
C.How to choose the story
D.How I spent my childhood

Hearst Castle is in California, America. A person called William Randolph Hearst built it between 1922 and 1939, at a cost of more than $30 million. Last year, I had a trip to that castle.
I spent the whole day looking around. But there was much to see, and a day wasn’t enough. Hearst Castle has four houses. The main house, “Casa Grande”, is the biggest one. Visitors can live in the other three ones. Many of them are Hollywood film stars, and they often come to the parties there.
At Hearst Castle, there are also beautiful gardens and two swimming pools, one inside and a larger one outside. I loved the one outside, the “Neptune Pool”. It was a pity that we couldn’t go swimming there!
The guide told us that Mr. Hearst travelled around Europe with his mother at the age of ten and looked at paintings and castles. He never forgot that tour and wanted his house to look like a castle. When Mr Hearst died in 1951, his family gave Hearst Castle to the people of California. Now it’s a museum.
The underlined word “Castle” in the first paragraph means _____.

A.城堡 B.胜地 C.城垛 D.楼阁

“Casa Grande” is _____ the other three ones at Hearst Castle.

A.younger than B.bigger than
C.older than D.smaller than

There are _____ at Hearst Castle.

A.beautiful gardens
B.one swimming pool inside
C.one swimming pool outside
D.all the above

_____ made Mr. Hearst build this wonderful castle.

A.A tour around Europe
B.The paintings and castles in Europe
C.His mother
D.His dream

Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A.Hearst Castle in California was cheap to build.
B.Hearst Castle is on a mountain near the sea.
C.Many Hollywood film stars come to Hearst’s parties.
D.After Mr. Hearst died, his family lived at Hearst Castle.

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