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1、1 / 10 Taking away a citys rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we cant eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish. In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside the city to a dump. Oft
2、en the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage（污水，排水）system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places. To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to co
3、ver the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then youd never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump. In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything except the me
4、tal.Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus（腐殖质） , which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feed plants and help make them
5、grow. (1)、You can most probably read this kind of passage in a telephone book. A：T B：F 答案： B (2)、The main idea of the passage is to tell people to take useful things out of rubbish. A：T B：F 答案： B (3)、The underlined word sewage in the second paragraph means laundry. A：T B：F 答案： B (4)、According to the
6、 passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again to feed plants. A：T B：F 答案： A 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 10 页2 / 10 (5)、We should take care of a used metal box by reusing and recycling it. A：T B：F 答案： A Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there
7、have been times when snow has looked red, green, yellow, or black. There have been snowflakes of almost every color. Think how it would seem to have colored snowflakes coming down all around you. Black snow fell in France one year. Another year grey snow fell in Japan. It was found that the snow was
8、 mixed with ashes. This made it look dark. Red snow had come down in other countries. When this happened, the snow was mixed with red dust. Most snow looks white, but it is really the color of ice. Snow is ice that comes from snow cloud. Each snowflake begins with a small drop of frozen water. More
9、water forms around this drop. The way the water freezes gives the snowflakes its shape. No two snowflakes are ever just the same size or shape. Sometimes the snowflakes are broken when they come down. Other snowflakes melt as they fall. All snowflakes are flat and have six sides, if they are not bro
10、ken or melted. When the air is cold and dry, the falling snowflakes are small and hard. If the air wet and warm, the snowflakes are big and soft. Would you be surprised to see snowflakes as big as your head falling from the sky? It happened once in the United States. It could happen again. (1)、The f
11、irst two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors. A：T B：F 答案： A (2)、No two snowflakes are just the same size, but all snowflakes are hard. A：T B：F 答案： B (3)、Snowflakes begin with cloud. A：T 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 10 页3 / 10 B：F 答案： B (4)、The b
12、igger the snowflakes are, the softer they are. A：T B：F 答案： A (5)、Black snow fell only in European Countries. A：T B：F 答案： B The Spring Festival together with the winter holidays often means sharing cakes, candies and other delicious food with friends and families. Most people will eat more than they
13、usually do. But doctors find out that what you eat may affect how well you remember things. This is bad news for people who eat too much. Forgetfulness seems to many people an inevitable part of aging. As our bodies grow older, most of us find that many things we should remember are slipping out of
14、minds. But new facts show that it is possible to slow times effects on our minds. Once people thought that the brain could not make new cells, but now studies show that learning new things can help brain grow and keep the illness away from the brain. Professor Eric Kandel, a Nobel Prize winner for h
15、is study of the human memory, says the best way to save our memories is to keep our brains in good shape. Through mental exercise, he says, people can keep their memories well into their 80s and 90s. And Mark Mattson, a professor at the National Institute on Aging, says that reducing the amount of c
16、alories fed to older rats and mice by thirty percent can be a good help to learning and memory. While it is hard for many people to go on their diet like that, doctors tell us that even small steps can make big difference. (1)、Doctors find out that eating too much may be bad for your memory. A：T B：F
17、 答案： A 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 10 页4 / 10 (2)、The underlined word slipping in the second paragraph means forgetting immediately. A：T B：F 答案： B (3)、A famous doctor thinks that we can save our memories through mental exercise. A：T B：F 答案： A (4)、The writer thinks that forge
18、tfulness is a big problem we face as we grow older. A：T B：F 答案： A (5)、Doctors say we can save our memories even through small efforts in our diet. A：T B：F 答案： A Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters One Sunday，Mrs. White said to her husband，The children dont have any lessons today ，and
19、 youre free too Theres a new funfair（庙会） in the parkLets all go there to play. Her husband said，I want to finish some work today.oh, forget itGo there and make our children happyThats the most important work Mrs. White said. So Mr. and Mrs. White took their children to the funfairMr. White was forty
20、-five years old. But he enjoyed the funfair more than his children. He hurried from one thing to another，and ate lots of sweets. One of the children said to her mother ，Dad is just like a small child ，isnt he, Mom? Mrs. White didnt want to follow her husband around any more at that time and answered
21、，He is even worse than a small child ，Mary，because he might spend more money than a small child. (1)、There were five children in the White family. A：T 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 10 页5 / 10 B：F 答案： A (2)、One Sunday， Mr. and Mrs. White wanted to go to a shop with their childr
22、en. A：T B：F 答案： B (3)、Mr. White liked the place so much that he bought lots of sweets. A：T B：F 答案： B (4)、From the story we know Mrs. White was a little angry with Mr. White. A：T B：F 答案： A (5)、Of all the family members, Mr. White enjoyed playing there most that Sunday. A：T B：F 答案： A Some British and
23、American people like to invite friends and colleagues for a meal at home. You should not be upset (心烦意乱 ) if your English friends dont invite you home. It doesnt mean they dont like you. Dinner parties usually start between 7 and 8 p.m., and end at about 11. Ask your hosts what time you should arriv
24、e. Its polite to bring flowers, chocolates or a bottle of wine as a present. Do you want to be extra ( 特别地 ) polite? Say how much you like the room, or the pictures on the wall. But remember - not to ask how much things cost. Youll probably start the meal with soup, or something small as a starter (
25、第一道菜 ), then youll have meat or fish with vegetables, and then a dessert ( 甜食 ), followed by coffee. Its polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it. Some people eat bread with 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 5 页，共 10 页6 / 10 their meal, but not everyone
26、does. Before they take out their cigarettes after the meal, most people usually ask, Do you mind if I smoke here? Did you enjoy the evening? Call your hosts the next day, or write them a short thank you letter. Perhaps it seems funny to you, but British and American people say, thank you, thank you,
27、 and thank you. all the time. (1)、If your English or American friends dont invite you to dinner at home, it doesnt show they dont like you. A：T B：F 答案： A (2)、When you are invited to go to your friends home, you may go at any time. A：T B：F 答案： B (3)、In England and America, its not polite to ask the p
28、rice of something. A：T B：F 答案： A (4)、In the passage, the order of the serving of a meal is meat or fish with vegetables-dessert-soup-coffee. A：T B：F 答案： B (5)、Youd better write a short Thank you letter to your hosts or give them a call if you want to be extra polite. A：T B：F 答案： A 精选学习资料 - - - - - -
29、 - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 6 页，共 10 页7 / 10 People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. Peoples understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term health has come to have a wider meaning than i
30、t used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another termquality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a pe
31、rson gets from life. Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a persons life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to liv
32、e longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75. (1)、Progress in scientific research leads to peoples d
33、eeper understanding of health. A：T B：F 答案： A (2)、According to the passage, to people of today, health means absence of illness. A：T B：F 答案： B (3)、The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer. A：T B：F 答案： A (4)、We can infer from
34、 the passage nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 7 页，共 10 页8 / 10 A：T B：F 答案： B (5)、This passage is mainly about different understandings of the term health. A：T B：F 答案： A 、On February 14th
35、 many people in the world celebrate an unusual holiday, St. Valentines Day, a special day for lovers. The origin of this holiday is uncertain but according to one story it gets its name from a Christian named Valentine who lived in Rome during the 3rd century A.D. His job was to perform marriages fo
36、r Christian couples. Unfortunately, the Emperor of Rome didnt allow Christian marriages. So they had to be performed in secret. Finally Valentine was arrested and put into prison. While he was in prison he fell in love with the daughter of the prison guard. After one year the Emperor offered to rele
37、ase Valentine if he would stop performing Christian marriages. Valentine refused and so he was killed in February, 270 A.D. Before he was killed Valentine sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard. He signed the letter from your Valentine. That was the first Valentine. Today Valentines
38、are cards usually red and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them. On Valentines Day tens of millions of people send and receive Valentines. Whether it is an expensive heart-shaped box of chocolates from a secret admirer or a simple hand-made card from a child, a Valentine is a very
39、 special message of love. (1)、The passage is mainly about a special holiday. A：T B：F 答案： A 全套完整题库，全中文翻译内容，复习更方便，提供简化版，全程免费答疑。请看用户名。(2)、Valentine was put into prison because he sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard. A：T B：F 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 8 页，共 10 页9 /
40、 10 答案： B (3)、It is because he refused to accept the Emperors offer that Valentine was killed. A：T B：F 答案： A (4)、Valentines are cards usually red, and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them. A：T B：F 答案： A (5)、People send Valentines to each other nowadays to celebrate Valentines bir
41、thday. A：T B：F 答案： B Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem. One of them, for example, was the great Italian artist, Leonardo Da Vinci. In the sixteenth century he made designs for machines that would fly, but they were never built. Throughout
42、 history, other less famous men had wanted to fly. An example was a man in England 800 years ago. He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into air from a tall building. He did not fly very far. Instead, he fell to the ground and broke every bone in hi
43、s body. The first real steps took place in France, in 1783. Two brothers, the Montgolfiers, made a very large hot air balloon. They knew that hot air rises. Why not fill a balloon with it? The balloon was made of cloth and paper. In September of that year, the King and Queen of France came to see th
44、e balloon. They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a chicken. We do not know how they felt about the trip. But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed safely. Two months later, two men did the same thing. The
45、y rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind. Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 9 页，共 10 页10 / 10 and they traveled about eight kilometers. (1)、Leonardo Da Vinci made designs for flying machines. A：T B：F 答案： A (2)、Eight hundred years ago an Engl
46、ishman made a kind of flying machine. A：T B：F 答案： B (3)、In fact, the Englishman who tried to fly lost his life. A：T B：F 答案： A (4)、The very first air passengers in the balloon were two Frenchmen. A：T B：F 答案： B (5)、The two Frenchmen rose above Paris in November 1783. A：T B：F 答案： A 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 10 页，共 10 页