阅读一
Children have their own rules in playing games.They seldom need a referee(裁判)and rarely trouble to keep scores.They don’t care much about who wins or loses，and it doesn’t seem to worry them if the game is not finished.Yet，they like games that depend a lot on luck，so that their personal abilities cannot be directly compared.They also enjoy games that move in stages，in which each stage，the choosing of leaders，the picking-up of sides，or the determining of which side shall start，is almost a game in itself.
Grown-ups can hardly find children’s games exciting，and they often feel puzzled at why their kids play such simple games again and again.However，it is found that a child plays games for very important reasons.He can be a good player without having to think whether he is a popular person，and he can find himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is ordinarily afraid.He becomes a leader when it comes to his turn.He can be confident，too，in particular games，that it is his place to give orders，to pretend to be dead，to throw a ball actually at someone，or to kiss someone he has caught.
It appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation under their control.Everyone knows the rules，and more importantly，everyone plays according to the rules.Those rules may be childish，but they make sure that every child has a chance to win.
1.What is true about children when they play games?
A.They can stop playing any time they like. B.They can test their personal abilities.
C.They want to pick a better team. D.They don’t need rules.
2.To become a leader in a game the child has to .
A.play well B.wait for his turn
C.be confident in himself D.be popular among his playmates
3.What do we know about grown-ups?
A.They are not interested in games.
B.They find children’s games too easy.
C.They don’t need a reason to play games.
D.They don’t understand children’s games.
4.Why does a child like playing games?
A.Because he can be someone other than himself.
B.Because he can become popular among friends.
C.Because he finds he is always lucky in games.
D.Because he likes the place where he plays a game.
5.The writer believes that .
A.children should make better rules for their games
B.children should invite grown-ups to play with them
C.children’s games can do them a lot of good
D.children play games without reasons
答案 1.A 2.B 3.B 4.A 5.C
阅读二
A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man—the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts，usually beginning by working with his hands.While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common labourer or even the skilled factory worker，he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or labourer of some sort.
This attitude toward manual(体力的)labour is now still seen in many aspects of American life.One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously(豪华的) furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel，expensive hobbies，and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself，will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward，furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery.On the contrary，the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes.A professional man may talk about washing the car，digging in his flowerbeds，painting the house.His wife may even help with these things，just as he often helps her with the dishwashing.The son who is away at college may wait on tab leand wash dishes for his living，or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.
1.From Paragraph 1，we can know that in America .
A.people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man
B.people can always rise to the top through their own efforts
C.college professors win great respect from common workers
D.people feel painful to mention their fathers as labourers
2.According to the passage，the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because .
A.servants in America are hard to get B.she takes pride in what she can do herself
C.she can hardly afford servants D.it is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
3.The expression“wait on table”in me second paragraph means .
A.work in a furniture shop B.keep accounts for a bar
C.wait to lay the table D.serve customers in a restaurant
481.Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?
A.A Respectable Self-made Family B.American Attitude toward Manual Labour
C.Characteristics of American Culture D.The Development of Manual Labour
答案 A B D B
阅读三
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like“Shakespeare,”“Samuel Johnson,”and“Webster,”but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English—William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more“foreign”than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man’s ambition.
1.The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were .
A.Welsh and Scottish B.Nordic and Germanic
C.Celtic and Old English D.Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
2.Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?
A.president, lawyer,beef B.president, bread, water
C.bread, field,sheep D.folk, field, cow
3.Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?
A.Most advertisements in France appear in English.
B.They know little of the history of the English language.
C.Many French words are similar to English ones.
D.They know French better than German.
4.What is the subject discussed in the text?
A.The history of Great Britain. B.The similarity between English and French.
C.The rule of England by William the Conqueror.
D.The French influences on the English language.
答案 1.C 2.A 3.C 4.D
阅读四
Answer the following questions by using the information taken from a dictionary page.(You may read the questions first.)
jaguar n. a type of large, yellow-colored cat with black markings found in the southwestern region of the U.S. and in Central and South America.
jargon 1 n. speech that doesn’t make sense. 2 n. an unknown language that seems strange or impossible to understand. 3 n. a language made up of two or more other languages：His jargon was a mixture of French and English. 4 n. the special vocabulary of a field or profession：Her report on computers was filled with jargon.
jaunt 1 n. a trip taken for fun. 2 v. to go on a brief pleasant trip：We jaunted to the country last Saturday.
javelin 1 n. a spear most commonly used as a weapon or in hunting.2 n. a light-weight metal or wooden spear that is thrown in track-and-field contests. 3 n. the contest in which a javelin is thrown. 4 v. to strike, as with a javelin.
jazz 1 n. a type of music that originated in New Orleans and is characterized by rhythmic beats. 2 n. popular dance music influenced by jazz. 3 n. slang empty talk. 4 adj. of or like jazz：a jazz band, jazz records.
jennet n. a small Spanish horse.
1.Which meaning of the word javelin is used in the sentence below?
At the competition,Jack drew his arm back and threw the javelin 50 yards.
A.Definition 1
B.Definition 2
C.Definition 3
D.Definition 4
2.Which meaning of the word jargon is used in the sentence below?
Doctors often speak in medical jargon.
A.Definition 1
B.Definition 2
C.Definition 3
D.Definition 4
3.What does the word jazz mean in the following sentence?
Don’t give me that jazz,for I am a practical person.
A.rhythmic beats B.a type of music
C.a kind of dance D.meaningless talk
答案 1.B 2.D 3.D