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阅读理解。     Today we will talk about expressions with "apple". "Apple pie order" means very well organized.
Nobody is sure when and where this expression began. It is said that the women of New England loved
to have everything in its place, especially when they were making apple pie.
     Another expression "apple of discord" describes the opposite condition. The ancient story says that
all the gods and goddesses were celebrating a marriage when Discord, one of the gods, threw a golden
apple on the table which was to be given as a prize to the most beautiful goddess. How could they
choose among Juno, Minerva and Venus? When Paris decided to give the golden apple to Venus, Juno
and Minerva were very angry and threatened(威胁)him. This began the long Trojan War.
     Calling a tomato "a love apple" was a mistake. In the sixteenth century, Spain imported the tomato
from South America to Morocco, and then Italian businessmen took it to Italy. The Italian name for the
tomato was pomo di Moro-apple of the Moors(荒野). When French growers imported it from Italy,
they thought di Moro meant d"amour, the French word for love. And so pomo di Moro became the
apple of love.
     People believe many things about the apple. One belief is that it has great powers of keeping people
healthy. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Another belief is based on fact. "One rotten apple
spoils the barrel." The expression has come to mean that one bad person in a group can cause everyone
to act badly.1. Which of the following expressions means badly organized?A. Apple pie order.
B. Apple of discord.
C. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
D. One rotten apple spoils the barrel.2. Which of the following statements is WRONG?A. Discord is the name of a god.
B. Di Moro means love in Italian.
C. "Apple pie order" means very well organized.
D. Many people believe apples can keep them healthy.3. We can most probably hear this passage in a radio program about ______.A. famous people in America
B. traveling in America
C. eating in America
D. words and their stories

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阅读理解。     For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurants
and places that wash clothes. People did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these
occupations by the prejudice and discrimination that faced them in this country.
     The first Chinese to reach the United States came during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Like
most of the other people there, they had come to search for gold. In that largely unoccupied land, the
men staked a  claim (立界标表明所有权 ) for themselves  by placing markers in the ground. However,
either because the Chinese were so different from the others or because they worked so patiently that
they sometimes succeeded in getting a mining claim to make a profit( where others saw no way to do so) ,
they became the target of their competitors. They were troubled and attacked in many ways.
     Often they were prevented from working their claims; some places even passed regulations forbidding
them to own claims. The Chinese therefore started to seek out other ways of earning a living. Some of them began to wash clothes for the white miners; others set up small restaurants. ( There were almost no
women in California in those days and the Chinese filled a real need by doing this " women"s work". )
Some went to work as farmhands or as fishermen.
      In the early 1860"s many more Chinese arrived in California. This time railroad companies brought
the men in to construct the first railroad line from Califomia to the East. They were sorely needed
because the work was so hard and dangerous,and it was carried on in such an isolated part of the
country that the railroad company could not find other laborers for the job. As in the case of the first
Chinese in America,these Chinese were almost all males; and like them,too,they encountered a great deal
of prejudice. The hostility grew especially strong after the railroad project was completed,and the Chinese
laborers returned to California-thousands of them,all out of work.
        Many of today"s Chinese Americans are the descendants (后裔) of some of the early miners and
railroad workers. 1. What is the main idea of the passage?      A. The first Chinese to reach the United States came during theCalifornia Gold Rush of 1849.
B. Many more Chinese arrived in Califomia to construct the first railroad from California to the East.
C. Early Chinese immigrants to America experienced a lot of prejudice and discrimination.
D. Prejudice and discrimination that Chinese Americans met.2. Why did the Chinese become the target of their competitors?   A. Because the Chinese were different and they worked patiently to achieve a lot of success while others couldn"t.
B. The Chinese were so different from the others.
C. They worked so patiently with little payment.
D. There were almost no women in California in those days.3. What was the fate of the Chinese after the construction of the railroad ?    A. They went back to their own country.
B. They stayed to work in the railroad companies.
C. They went to California to search for gold.
D. The hostility grew especially strong.

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阅读理解。     The word "conservation" has a thrifty meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we
ourselves enjoy in such a good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had
no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials: most of them,
even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were "limitless" and could "last forever".
Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system
that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part
will sooner or later be harmful to all the others.
     Fifty years ago, nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; wood was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and
river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-term climatic cycles in relation to
proper land use; even the word "conservation" had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today.
     For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about correcting the
mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should be made part of everybody"s daily life. To know abou
t the water table in ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic math formulas. We need
to know why all watersheds (上游集水区) need the protection of plant life and why the running current
of streams and rivers must be made to give their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the
importance of big, grown trees, because living space for most of man"s fellow creatures on this planet is
figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic (立方体的) volume above the earth. In a
word, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.1.The author"s attitude towards the use of natural resources is _________.A. positive
B. uninterested
C. optimistic
D. critical2. According to the author, the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that _________.A. they had no idea about scientific forestry
B. they had little or no sense of environmental protection
C. they were not aware of the importance of nature study
D. they had no idea of how to make good use of raw materials3.To avoid repeating the mistakes of our forefathers, the author suggests that _________.A. we plant more trees
B. natural sciences be taught to everybody
C. environmental education be directed toward everyone
D. we return to nature4. How can you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?A. Our living space on the earth is getting smaller and smaller.
B. Our living space should be measured in cubic volume.
C. We need to take some measures to protect space.
D. We must preserve good living conditions for both birds and animals.

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1.______all languages change when cultures
2._______ with one another. The English spoken
between AD 450 and 1150 was quite 3. _____from the
English spoken today. It was based more on 4._____
than the English we speak at present. Later,it became less
like German. One big change in English 5.________
happened when The American Dictionary o f the English
Language, which gave American English spelling a
separate 6.______,came 7. ______. Now India has a
very large number of English speakers. This is because
English became the language for 8. ______ and education
during 1765 to 1947,when Britain ruled India. English is
also spoken in many other countries in Africa and Asia,
such 9. _____ South Africa, Singapore and Malaysia.
The number of people learning English in China is also
increasing 10.______.

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阅读理解。     How does a place become a World Heritage Site (世界遗产) ? It takes a lot of people to decide.
      If a country wants one of its places to be on the World Heritage List, it has to ask UNESCO (联合
国教科文组织 ) .The place must be important and special.UNESCO put the Great Wall on the list in
1987,because it said,it was a great part of Chinese culture and beautifully made to go with the land.When
a country asks,it must also make a plan for taking care of the place.
     The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO talks about different places and decides whether to put
them on the list. The committee meets every June. Many experts help the committee to decide.
       After a new place goes on the list,UNESCO gives money to help keep it looking good.If a place is
in serious danger,it may be put on the List of World Heritage Sites in Danger. UNESCO gives special
care and help to those places.
      Countries have to give UNESCO regular reports about places on the list. If UNESCO thinks a country isn"t taking good care of a place,the site will be taken off the list. 1. What does the passage imply?        A. Becoming a world heritage site takes hard work.
B. A place with beautiful scenery is often on the World Heritage List.
C.  A place which is taken good care of is often on the World Heritage List.
D. The Great Wall became a World Heritage Site for its long history.2. If a place successfully becomes a World Heritage Site,the country ______.       A. can ask UNESCO for more money and help
B.  should continue to take special care of it
C. won"t take trouble of caring for it
D. will try to put it on the List of World Heritage Sites in danger 3. The passage mainly discusses___.

A. the important role played by the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO
B. how the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO protects a World Heritage Site
C. how the Great Wall became a World Heritage Site
D. how a place becomes a World Heritage Site

4. The purpose of putting a place on the World Heritage List is to _____. A. attract more tourists from other countries
B. get more money and help from cther countries
C. have it taken better care of
D. make it known to other countries

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阅读理解。     The year is 2094.  It has been announced that a comet(彗星) is heading towards the Earth.  Most of
it will miss our planet,but two pieces will probably hit the southem half of the Earth.
     On 17 July,a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth"s atmosphere with a massive explosion.
About half of the piece is destroyed,but the remaining part hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed
of sound. The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed.  Huge waves are created and spread
outwards from the hole.  The wall of water,a kilometer high,rushes towards southem Africa at 800
kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned.
     Before the waves reach South America,the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina.
Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains.  The shock waves move north into
California and all around the Pacific Ocean.The cities of Los Angeles,San Francisco and Tokyo are
completely destroyed by earthquakes.  Millions of people in the southem half of the earth are already
dead,but the north won"t escape for long.  Because of the explosions,the sun is hidden by clouds of dust,
temperatures around the world fall to almost zero. Crops are ruined.  The sun won"t be seen again for
many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food.  A year later,no more than 10 million people
remain alive.
     Could it really happen? In fact,it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The
dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million years.  Then 65 million years ago they suddenly
disappeared.  Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space.  The dinosaurs
couldn"t live through the cold climate that followed and they died out. Will we meet the same end?1. What is mainly described in the passage?A.  A historic discovery.
B.  An event of imagination.
C. A research on space.
D. A scientific adventure.2. When the first piece hits the South Atlantic,it causes_________.A. an earthquake
B. damages to cities
C. an Earth explosion
D. huge waves3.  Why can"t the northern half of the earth escape for long?    A.  Because the land is covered with water.
B.  Because the light and heat from the sun can not reach the earth.
C.  Because people there can not live at the temperature of zero.
D. Because wars break out among countries.4. By giving the example of dinosaurs,the author tries to prove_____.A. animals could not live in the cold climate
B. what happened 65 million years ago was an invented story
C.  the human beings will die out in 2094
D. the Earth could be hit by other objects in space

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