There were so many students in the class that the teacher couldn’t talk to them all.翻译

A.shock

B.shocked

C.shocks

D.shocking

“There have been so many things, so many memories that at times it’s hard to recall them all,” says Daniel. “But I guess one of the best ones was the London premiere for the Philosopher’s Stone. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life.”

“But I’ve had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets. I love doing the work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It’s been great.”

Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July, 2002. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frame. is filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.

Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother, Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their only child.

1. How old was Daniel Radcliff in 2003？

A. 15 B

. 16

C. 14

D. 13

2. What is Daniel Radcliff’s memory about the past year according to the passage？

A. He didn’t remember anything about it.

B. He had so many bad memories about it.

C. There were amazing experiences in the past year.

D. There were not many unforgetable things in the past year.

3. Which of the following is not mentioned as a liking by Daniel？

A. Making friends.

B. Being an actor.

C. Being part of the team.

D. Becoming a director.

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage？

A. Daniel’s parents are all film stars.

B. Daniel’s parents influenced Daniel greatly.

C. Daniel has never had any influence from his parents.

D. Daniel has brothers and sisters.

5. Daniel was born in _________.

A. New York

B. Beijing

C. Paris

D. London

Passage Five

Many superstitious people are afraid of black cats. They believe that black cats have a strange power. If a black cat crosses their path, they think they will have bad luck.

Black cats haven't always had such a bad reputation. Long ago, the Egyptians thought that black cats were holy animals. They even worshipped them. Pasht was an Egyptian goddess who had a woman's body and a cat's head. Because the Egyptians had so much respect for black cats, they often buried the sacred creatures with great ceremony. Mummies of cats have often been found in ancient cemetery ruins. To keep the cats company after they died, mice were sometimes buried beside them.

Feelings about black cats have always been strong. People have thought they were either very good or very bad. The people of Europe, in the Middle Ages, believed black cats were the evil friends of witches and the Devil. Witches were said to have the power to change themselves into black cats. People believed that you could not tell whether a black cat was just a cat, or whether it was a witch disguising herself as she plotted some evil scheme. The brain of a black cat was thought to be a main ingredient in witch's brew.

Unlike their ancestors of the Middle Ages, Englishmen today consider black cats to be good luck charms. Fishermen's wives often keep a black cat around so that their husbands will be protected when they are out at sea.

52. The Egyptian goddess Pasht had a ______.

A. woman's head and a cat's body

B. woman's head and a lion's body

C. cat's head and a man's body

D. woman's body and a cat's head

There are two ideas—one, living within your means, and the idea that living on debt is a great equalizer(平衡装置). They both have validity because it is important that someone live within their means over their lifetime. When people are young and they are earning money, but they have very little savings, they almost have to borrow in order to own a house or own a car. But as they grow older, they should develop the habit of saving, so that by the time they reach the end of their earning life, they have savings to live on in retirement, and live within their means.

"Buy now, pay later" worked very well for us in the 1990s, but one suspects it won't work forever. The only thing that concerns me is that Americans are so contented, so optimistic, so unconcerned about any bumps in the road that many American households, not all of them, but many American households are very heavily extended in personal credit, a lot of credit card debt. People are paying very high prices for houses and borrowing heavily against those prices; and if we do run into a bump in the road, a recession, there are going to be a lot of households, not all of them, but many households that Ml be severely squeezed. That means we're more vulnerable to serious financial distress than Japan is. Japan has been in financial distress for ten years, but one reason it's been able to weather that is that the households had been very conservative, had a lot of savings, were very liquid, and were able to weather difficult times. And many American households would now be less able to do that because they are so heavily in debt.

We know from the passage that credit cards

A．make Americans get deeper and deeper in debt

B．are likely to be abandoned by more Americans

C．will soon become a symbol of American life

D．will help solve potential financial problems

Passage Two

Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.

In the early years, these schools were much alike. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers (大臣) or teachers.

In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard's law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began teaching American history.

As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.

Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with (涉及) special fields of learning. There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer it all.

36. The oldest university in the US is______.

A. Yale

B. Princeton

C. Harvard

D. Columbia

If you ask Daniel Radcliffe who acted Harry Potter to pick a special moment from the lat year of his life, you will find it almost impossible.

“Oh, wow, that’s really difficult,” he says with a smile. “There so many things, so many memories that at times it’s hard to recall them all,”says Daniel. “But I guess one of the best ones was the London Premiere for The Philosopher’s Stone. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life.”“But I’ve had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets. I love doing the work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It’s been great.” Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July,2002. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frame. is filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.

Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother, Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their only child.

1. How old was Daniel Radcliff in 2003？

A. 15

B. 16

C. 14

D. 13

2. What is Daniel Radcliff’s memory about the past year according to the passage？

A. He didn’t remember anything about it.

B. He had so many bad memories about it.

C. There were amazing experiences in the past year.

D. There were not many unforgettable things in the past year.

3. Which of the following is not mentioned as a liking by Daniel？

A. Making friends.

B. Being an actor.

C. Being part of the team.

D. Becoming a director.

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage？

A. Daniel’s parents are all film stars.

B. Daniel’s parents influenced Daniel greatly.

C. Daniel has never had any influence from his parents.

D. Daniel has brothers and sisters.

5. Daniel was born in _______.

A. New York

B. Beijing

C. Paris

D. London

The country' s 35 million motorcycles and scooters make it the world s largest two-wheel market.But because there are still big differences in people' s incomes, the roads are full of a whole variety of vehicles, lots of them not motorised

A ride with a taxi driver in New Delhi gives a flavour of a typical Indian-style. traffic jam with all kinds of vehicles held up in city streets or in long lines on narrow country lanes Cars, lorries and buses back up behind a cart pul led by or animal or another."India has everything on the roads."the taxi driver says."You have to watch out for pedestrian

bicycles, carts, cows, donkeys and even elephants.Three things were recommended to drive here, a horn, brakes and good luck Just then we were stopped by a young boy and his cow.(判断正误)

26.The number of second-hand cars traded in the last twelve months is 1, 400, 000.()

27.Because there are 35 million people in India.India is the world’ s largest two- wheeled market.()

28.Because the amount of money that people earn is so different there are so many different types of vehicles in India.()

29.Because the roads are very bad, motor vehicles often held up in India.()

30.The brakes.the horn and luck are three important things in India.()

Ancient Greece

The Greeks were the greatest (great) sailors of their time. Greece has one excellent_ 41_ (nature) feature-- the coastline. That's why many Greeks left the mountains and_ 42_ (take) to the sea.

The ancient Greeks have __43_ (give) the world many ideas about life and how to live it. The idea of democracy (民主) started in Greece. So did many ideas of science, religion and_44 (govern). But these ideas did not come out of Greece as a whole. Instead, they grew up in_ 45___ (differ) cities throughout the Greek Empire.

The cities of Greece grew up in valleys near the sea. Each city was_ 46__ (separate) from the others by mountains. The roads _ 47 _ (connect) the cities were narrow and winding. Each city governed itself in its own way. And the_ 48__ (citizen) of each city were very proud of its way of life. In fact, each city was_ 49_ (real) an independent state. Such places are called city-states by_ 50_ (politics) scientists.

【C1】

A．often

B．already

C．seldom

D．always

The pen is more powerful than the sword (剑). There have been many writers who used their pens to fight things that were wrong. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them. She was born in the USA in 1811. One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freezing the slaves. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won. This book was named "Uncle Toms Cabin". There was time when every English-speaking man, woman, and child has read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting. The book has shown us how a warm-hearted writer can arouse (唤起) peoples sympathies (同情). The writer herself had neither been to the Southern States nor been a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the novel, which they said did not at all represent (代表) true state of affairs,but the Northern Americans were wildly excited over it, and were so inspired by it that they were ready to go to war to let the slaves free.

1.How old was Mrs. Stowe when her world famous book was published？ （）

A、About 60 years old

B、Over 50 years old

C、In her forties

D、Around 30 years old

2.Why could Mrs. Stowe's book cause a civil war in America？ （）

A、She wrote so well that Americans loved her very much

B、She disclosed (揭露) the terrible wrongs that had been done to the slaves in the Southern States

C、The Southern Americans hated the book while the Northern Americans like it

D、The book had been read by many Americans

3.What can we learn from the passage？ （）

A、We needn't use weapons (武器) to fight things that are wrong

B、writer is more helpful in a war than a soldier

C、We must understand the importance of literature and art

D、No war can be won without such a book as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

4.What do you learn about Mrs. Stowe from the passage？ （）

A、She had been living in the north of America before the American Civil War

B、She herself encouraged the northern Americans to go to war and set the slaves free

C、She was better as writing as using a sword

D、She had once been a slave

5.According to the passage（）.

A、every English-speaking person had read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

B、"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was not very interesting

C、those who don't speak English can not have read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

D、the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" did a great deal in the American Civil War