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If you go to England, you may want to visit Big Ben. Big Ben is not the name of a man but a name of the clock in London. It has a long history of about 150 years. It is at the north end of the Palace of Westminster（威斯敏斯特）. The big clock has four faces. So you can read the face of the chock everywhere.The hands of it are about four meters（米）long.When the new year comes, it chimes to welcome the start of the new year. There are also many fireworks over the clock tower.
The big clock makes a very loud sound “Ding dong.Ding dong”-the clock gives the sound every 15 minutes of an hour.
小题1:Ｗhat is Big Ben?

A．A man

B．A tower

C．A clock

D．A plane

小题2:How long are the hands of Big Ben?

A．2 meters

B．4 meters

C．15 meters

D．16 meters

小题3:Which of the following is True about Big Ben?

A．It has three faces.	B．It’s in the UK.
C．It gives the sound every 30 minutes	D．It is about 200 years old.

小题4:What dose the underlined word chimes mean?

A．微笑

B．报时

C．呐喊

D．跑步

小题5:What’s the best title（标题）of the passage？

A．The clock tower	B．The palace of the westminster
C．Clock hands	D．Big Ben

答案

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:D

解析

试题分析：本文介绍的是英国的大本钟，它有150多年的历史，有四个面，指针长约四米，新年到来的时候它用报时来庆祝，声音很大，每15分钟响一次。
小题1:细节理解题。根据短文第一段Big Ben is not the name of a man but a name of the clock in London.大本钟不是一个人的名字而是一个钟的名字，可知答案为C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据短文第一段The hands of it are about four meters（米）long.钟表的指针大约四米长，可知答案为B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据短文第一段If you go to England, you may want to visit Big Ben. 可知大本钟在英国，故选B。
小题4:词义猜测题。根据短文第一段When the new year comes, it chimes to welcome the start of the new year.既然它是钟表，当然是用报时来欢迎新年的到来，故选B。
小题5:标题归纳题。全文都在叙述大本钟的名字、地点、形状及声音等，故题目应为Big Ben ，故选D。

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Daniel was always making excuses for forgetting to do things. His usual excuse was: “ I was too busy.” or “I didn’t have time.”
Daniel’s parents were worried about him. “ He shouldn’t go through life making excuses all the time.” his father said. “ No one will trust him to do anything. He won’t be able to keep a job. No sensible(明智的)girl will marry him.”
“I don’t know what we can do.” his mother said.
“I have an idea.” his father said. “If this doesn’t work, nothing will.”
The next day was Daniel’s birthday. He was really looking forward to getting exciting presents. He woke up, expecting his parents to wish him a happy birthday. But all day what they said was “Good morning, Daniel. Hurry, or you will be late for school.” There were no presents, not even a card. He was really disappointed.
“Never mind.” he thought. (3) “There’ll be a surprise for me after school.” But there wasn’t. Sadly he said to his parents at dinner, “Today’s my birthday.”
“Oh,” his father said. “So it is. I forgot.”
“So did I.” his mother said.
“How could you forget?” Daniel asked. “There must be a reason.”
“Well, yes.” his father said. “We have a really good excuse for forgetting your birthday, Daniel. We didn’t remember your birthday because we were too busy.”
Poor Daniel! He never had a silly excuse for not doing something again.
小题1:判断Daniel got his birthday present at last( )。
小题2:He thought there would be ________for him afte school.
小题3:What did Daniel feel when he didn’t receive any presents?
_______________________________________________________.
小题4:What do you learn from the story?_____________________________________.
小题5:翻译划横线句子?
_________________________________________________________________.

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Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building only was a few feet away from mine. They was a woman lived there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, drinking or reading.
After a few months, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t clean her window. It really looks terrible.”
One sunny morning I decided to clean my house, including washing the window.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean!
It dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at others through the dirty window of my heart?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
小题1: The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because __________.

A．the woman’s window was dirty

B．the writer’s window was dirty

C．the woman lived nearby

D．the writer was near-sighted

小题2: The writer was surprised that _________.

A．the woman was sitting by her window

B．the woman’s window was still terrible

C．the woman did cleaning in the afternoon

D．the woman’s window was clean

小题3: “It dawned on me” probably means “_______”.

A．I began to understand it	B．it cheered me up
C．I knew it grew light	D．it began to get dark

小题4: It’s clear that ________.

A．the writer had never met the woman before

B．the writer often washed the window

C．they both worked as cleaners

D．they lived in a small town

小题5: From the passage, we can learn _______.

A．one shouldn’t criticize others very often

B．one should often make his windows clean

C．one must judge himself before he judges others

D．one must look at others through his dirty windows.

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Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.
When he was 12, his parents died. He was alone and didn"t get on well with others. People always laughed at him. No one showed kindness to him.
His only friend was a dog named Tiger. He gave his dog enough to eat and drink, but sometimes he was not polite to it. He didn"t know that an unkind word sometimes could cut one"s heart like a knife.
One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped to pick it up, she dropped other bags. He came to help her. “Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” she said kindly, smiling.
A special feeling came to him. These were the first kind words he had ever heard. He watched her until she went far away, and then he whistled to his dog and went directly to the river nearby.
“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy” he repeated the woman"s words. Then in a low voice he said to his dog, “You are a nice little dog!” Tiger raised its ears as if it understood.
“Unum! Even a dog likes it!” he said. “Well, Tiger, I won"t say unkind words to you any more.” Tiger waved its tail happily.
The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw nothing but a dirty boy. He washed his face carefully. Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed. From then on, he had a new life.
After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness. What a great power it has!"
小题1:The boy repeated the words “Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” because .

A．he was thinking about the words

B．he didn"t understand the words

C．he wanted to talk to his dog

D．he liked talking to himself

小题2:What made the boy start his new life?

A．The people laughing at him.

B．The kind words spoken to him.

C．The hard life.

D．His lovely dog.

小题3:He was feeling when he whistled to his dog.

A．funny

B．sad

C．lonely

D．excited

小题4:Which of the following is Right according to the passage?

A．He never took good care of his friend, Tiger.

B．He usually had many friends around him.

C．He helped a young lady when her bag dropped.

D．He often washed his dirty face in lake.

小题5:What"s the best title of this passage?

A．A Dog and a Boy	B．A Poor Boy"s Childhood
C．A Businessman and a Boy	D．The Power of Kindness

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At the beginning of 2009,Li Guilin and his wife Lu Jianfen were honored(授予...荣誉)as “People Who Moved China in 2008” in this yearly event. This event was introduced by CCTV in 2002.
Li,42,and Lu,41,were born in Han families and grew up in Ya’an City. In 1990,Li visited Erping Village(二坪村)in Liangshan of Sichuan Province, he was surprised at how backward(落后)it was. People there lived a rather poor life. The children seldom went out of the village. Li decided to teach in that village at once.
The children have to climb five wooden ladders to reach the school of Erping. They spend the week there before returning home for the weekend. “Walking on the wooden ladders is really dangerous. You can just put half of your foot in the narrowest place.Behind the ladders is the deep valley.(山谷)”
A year later, as the number of students increased, Li Guilin began to look for a new teacher. When the summer holiday was over, he couldn’t find one yet. So he advised his wife Lu Jianfen to join him.
Till now ,they have been teaching in the village for more than 18 years.Over the past years, they have taught 149 students,22 of them were from the schools of other areas because of the two kind teachers. “I’m the son of farmers,” says Li, “I know that education is the best way for a poor mountain area to change.”The couple(夫妇)will go on working at this school to help more children walk out of the mountains into happy and bright futures.
小题1: “People Who Moved China” has been held ________ till 2009.
A. three times. B. eight times          C. ten times
小题2:Li Guilin and Lu Jianfen are ________.
A. doctors            B. students            C. teachers
小题3: The children have to climb wooden ladders because ________.
A. walking on the wooden ladders is really dangerous
B. they like doing that
C. it’s the only way to the school of Erping
小题4: Lu Jianfen has worked in the school of Erping since ________ .
A. 1991              B. 2002                  C. 1990
小题5:Why will Li Guilin and Lu Jianfen go on working at this school?
A. Because both of them are children of farmers
B. Because they hope more children can have happy and bright future
C. Because they were honored as “People Who Moved China in 2008

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It was Christmas, and there was a big party in the house. Guests came and went, but the party went on. Then the bell rang. Several people shouted, "Come in!"and a small man opened the front door and came in. Nobody knew him. But the host went to meet him, and took him to the bar for a drink. The man sat there happily for an hour and a half and drank.Then suddenly he stopped and looked at the host. "Do you know," he said, "nobody invited me to this party. I don"t know you, "I don"t know your wife, and I don"t know any of your guests. My wife and I wanted to go out in our car, but one of your guests" cars was in front of our gate, so I came here to find him and my wife is waiting in our car for me to come back.
小题1:What’s the date that day ?
A. Monday . .B It’s December 25^th .
C. It’s Novermber 25^th D. It’s January 1^st
小题2:Which sentence is Not true about the party ?

A．All the guests stayed there until the party was over .

B．There were lots of people at the party .

C．There were some drinks at the party .

D．Not all the guests knew each other

小题3:How long did the small man stay at the party ?

A． For an hour .

B．For half an hour .

C．For 90 minutes .

D．For a while

小题4:Why did the small man stay at the party ?

A．He was the host’s neighbor .

B．He was a friend of the host’s .

C．He wanted to say “Have fun ” to the people at the party

D．He wanted to look for the person whose car was in front of his gate .

小题5:The best title is ___.

A． A small Man

B．A Strange Guest

C．A Friendly Host

D．A funny Man

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