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第四部分 阅读理解(共20小题。每题2分， 共40分) 阅读每段短文，从题后所给的A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A When school starts, the little shopping centre across the street called Town and Country Village gets lots of business. At 11:40 am when the bell rings for lunch, there is no place better to go than the little food stores at Town and Country Village. Freshman (一年级新生) love the new experience of going off campus for lunch. For upperclassmen, it’s a lifestyle. Every day, even when there’s not much time, the trip across the street is completely necessary. I don’t bring a bag lunch to school. There are so many things to buy across the street, like fruit, sandwiches and teriyaki (红烧的) bowls. I think bag lunches are difficult to carry (with all my textbooks and binders (活页夹). Bag lunches are often dull and tasteless—my mother packs me dumplings every day for lunch. After eight years of bringing bag lunches, I am tired of food that I used to love so much, like dumplings and pork chops. At the Town and Country Village, I never get bored of any food. The lines move quickly and lunches there are not very expensive. These small restaurants give me a feeling of freedom. I appreciate this even more when I go to China. There, teenagers are surprised when I tell them that at my American school, my friends and I can leave and drive downtown to get lunch. I tell them it’s not as good as Chinese food, but the chance to go to different places makes high school so much more fun. ---By Selena Durst Mao, 16, studies in Palo Alto High School in California, US. 51. The writer writes this passage in order to ________. A. make Town and Country Village known to everybody B. compare American food to Chinese food C. explain what American teenagers do for lunch D. tell us why American students don’t like to bring bag lunches 52. Which statement is true about “upperclassmen”? A. Most of them are used to having lunch at Town and Country Village. B. They often have lunch in the restaurants in their school. C. They have more time for lunch than freshmen. D. They would rather have bag lunches at school. 53. The food in the small restaurants is more attractive than bag lunches because of the following EXCEPT _______. A. its reasonable price B. its variety (多样性) C. the difficulty in carrying it D. its fast service 54. Which can be inferred from the passage? A. American food is as tasty as Chinese food. B. American teenagers are crazy about eating outside school. C. The writer’s mother made sure her bag lunches had new and interesting foods. D. Food is not the only reason why the writer loves those small restaurants. B Have you ever seen a horse with toes (脚趾)? Millions of years ago, horses had many toes. They had four toes on each front foot. They had three toes on each back foot. The horses were smaller than cats. These small horses lived in the forest. Their many toes helped the horses run over the soft wet ground. It was very hot in the forest. But the weather changed. It became cold. Many trees couldn’t live in cold weather. The trees died and fell. Open field took the place of (代替) forest. The sun made the ground dry and hard (坚硬). Horses began to change too. They began to get bigger. This took a long time. On the dry hard land, horses needed only their middle toes for running. Their middle toes became hard. After a long time horses had only one hard toe on each foot. We call this hard toe a hoof (马蹄). 55. Long ago, the horse had four toes on each of its __________. A. back feet B. front feet C. right feet D. left feet 56. Which of the four sentences is true? A. The weather stays the same the whole year all over the world. B. When the weather changed, animals began to change too. C. Cats were older than the horses. D. Horses were the same as they are. 57. On the dry hard land _________. A. horses needed a lot of room for running. B. A horse needed more than four toes for running. C. horses needed only their middle toes for running. D. horses didn’t need any toes. 58 Now each horse has ________ on its feet. A. one toe B. two toes C. three toes D. four toes C People have smoked cigarettes for a long time now. The tobacco used to make cigarettes was grown in what is now part of the United States. Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, saw the Indians smoking, and soon the dried leaves were transported (运输) to Europe where smoking began to catch on. In the late 1800s, the Turks (土耳其人) made cigarettes popular. Cigarettes smoke contains at least two harmful substances (物质), tar and nicotine. Tar, which forms as the tobacco bums, damages the lungs and therefore affects breathing. Nicotine, which is found in the leaves, causes the heart to beat faster and increases breathing rate (频率). Smoking cigarettes is dangerous. The U.S. Public Health Service stated that cigarette smoking is the cause of lung cancers and several other deadly diseases. The U.S. government now requires that each package of cigarettes bear (带有) a special warning about the danger of smoking. (责任编辑：admin) |