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1、英语等级考试阅读5情景交流补全（选择填空题）M: ( 1 C )W: I dont know. But I feel terrible, and I dont like doing anything. And Ive got a headache.M: Let me see! Mm., never mind, there is nothing serious with you, but your temperature is a little high. You should have a rest. ( 2 A )W: ( 3 F )M: Of course, you should eat

2、more fruits and vegetables.W: ( 4 D )M: Certainly. Here is your prescription（处方). Please take this medicine according to the instruction.W: ( 5 B ) Thanks a lot.M: Youre welcome.A.Youd better drink more water.B.Ill take your advice. C.Whats wrong with you?D.Shall I take any medicine?E.The doctor giv

3、es me some pills.F.Can I eat food now, doctor?6阅读理解（单选），共5题。When Mr. David retired, he bought a small house in village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it. But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it is the most interesting bui

4、lding in the village. From morning to night there were tourists outside the house. They kept looking into the room through the window and many of them even went into Mr. Davids garden. This was too much for Mr. David. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notic

5、e said: “If you want to satisfy your curiosity(好奇心), came in and look around. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. “I came here to retire, not

6、to work as a guide,” he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.1.Mr. Davids house was ( B ) that many tourists came to see it.A.so quiet B. so interesting C. such interesting D. so small2.Mr. David put a notice on the window in order ( D ).A.to get some money out of the visitorsB

7、.to satisfy the visitors curiosityC.to let visitors come in and look roundD.to drive the visitors away3. The notice made the visitors ( D ).A. feel happy about the price B. lose interest in his house C. angry at the unfair price D. more interested in his house4. After Mr. David put up the notice, (

8、D ).A. the visitors didnt come any longerB. fewer and fewer visitors came to see his houseC. no tourist would pay the money for a visitD. more and more tourists came for a visit 5.At last he had to sell his house and move away because ( D ).A.he could not work as a guideB.he did not like it at all C

9、.he made enough money and wanted to buy a new expensive houseD.he could not live a quiet life in it7阅读理解（是非题），共5题。 ABill Gates was born on October 28,1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. He was a very clever boy. His favorite subjects at school were science and math. When people asked him what h

10、e wanted to be in the future, he always said, “A scientist”.When he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computer. At that time, computers were very large machines. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent lots of time doing unusual things with it. In th

11、e end, they worked out a software program with the old machine. Bill sold it for 4200 dollars when he was only 17.In 1973, Bill to Harvard University. At Harvard, he developed the BASIC language for the first microcomputer(微型计算机). In his third year, he left Harvard to work for a company called Micro

12、soft. Bill began this company in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. They thought that the computer would be a very important tool in every office and in every home, so they began developing software for personal computer. They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers.Today M

13、icrosoft is one of the most successful businesses in the world.1.Bill Gates was interested in microcomputer when he was thirteen years of age.( F ) 2.Computers were very large machines in the 1960s.( T )3.Bill sold his software program for 4200 dollars at the age of 13. ( F )4.The BASIC language was

14、 developed for the first microcomputer.( T )5.Bill and his friend improved software so that people could use computers more easily.( T )BBeing safe at school and in your everyday life needs knowledge. If you remember the following information, your life will be much safer.Always notice the environme

15、nt around you. You shouldnt walk alone outside. Make sure where the public phones are. If anything dangerous happens, you can find them quickly.School bags should be carried towards the front of your body instead of putting them on your back. When buses are crowded, it is easy enough for thieves to

16、steal the tings in your bags on your back.If you are followed by a stranger, cross the street and go in the other direction, and let the stranger know that you know he or she is there. Next, go and get help from others if it is necessary. Dont go home directly. You are safer on the street than you a

17、re in your home or in a lift.If you have to take a bus to a place far away, try to get to the stop a few minutes before the bus leaves. On buses, dont sit alone; sit behind the driver or with friends. Dont be sleep.Dont play with matches or candles, because it may cause fire. If your house catches f

18、ire and you have to escape through smoke, please remember there is cleaner, cooler air near the floor during the fire.1.Make sure you can find the public phones when you walk outside. ( T )2.Youd better put your school bag on your back.( F )3.If you are followed by a stranger, go home directly.( F )

19、4.You shouldnt sleep although its a long bus trip.( T )5.During the fire, the cleaner and cooler air is far from the floor.( F )C.Many people believe that the hump (驼峰) of a camel is full of water. They believe this is the reason that camels do not have to drink very often, but they are quite wrong.

20、 A camels hump is not full of water. It is mostly fat. The camels body can use the fat later when it is hungry, but it does not help the camel go for a long time without drinking. A camel can do this because it does not sweat very much.When people - and most other animals - get hot, they sweat. Swea

21、t is mostly water from the body. Therefore, when people sweat, they lose water and soon have to drink. If they do not drink water, they die. When a camel gets hot, it does not sweat very much, so it does not lose much of the water in its body. It does not need to drink very often. There is very litt

22、le water in the desert, so any animal that does not need much water is very useful for carrying people and things across the desert. Camels can travel a long way without stopping for food or water. This is why the camel is called “the Ship of the Desert”- it carries its food and water with it and it

23、 can go for a long time between towns.People still use camels in the deserts of North Africa and in many other places. 1. The hump of a camel is full of water.( F )2. The fat in the hump of a camel is used when it is hungry.( T )3When camels got hot, they sweat very much.(F )4Camels can travel a lon

24、g way without stopping for food.( T )5. Camels are not used by people now.( F )D.We have no idea about when men first began to use salt, but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout the history.For example, it is recorded in many history books that people who lived over thr

25、ee thousand years ago ate salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt, salt was used to preserve the dead.In some periods of history, a person who stole salt was thought to have broken the law. Take the eighteenth century for example. If a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thought to hav

26、e broken the law and would be seriously punished, and his ear would be cut off.Salt was an important item on the dinner table of a king. It was always placed in front of the king when he sat down to eat. Important guests at the kings table were seated near the salt. Less important guests were given

27、seats farther away from it.1. Thousands of years ago in Egypt salt was used to keep dead bodies from going bad.( T )2. During the 18th century about ten thousands of people were thrown into prisons in England because they sold salted fish.( F )3. In the 16th century, if a man took more than a share

28、of salt, he would lose an ear.(F )4. When a king had a dinner, salt was placed in front of the important guests.( F )5. The best title of the passage is The Use and Importance of Salt in History.( T )E.People are so busy these days that many people have no time to cook. This becomes a problem, becau

29、se most families love home cooking! The food tastes good and warm, and a family meal brings everyone together. In some families, meals are often the only time everyone sees one another at the same time. Another reason people enjoy home cooking is that it is often a way of showing love. A parent who

30、makes some cookies is not just satisfying a childs sweet tooth. She or he is sending a message. The message says, “I care about you enough to spend an hour making cookies that you will eat up in 15 minutes if I let you.”There is also something about the smell of home cooking. The smell of home cooki

31、ng pleases people of all ages. It makes most of us feel happy -even if we are the ones doing the cooking! 1. Now fewer people cook because most of them dislike home cooking.( F )2.A parent spends an hour making cookies just to satisfy her or his childs tooth.( F )3. Meals often bring many people tog

32、ether and then they can see one another at the same time.( T )4. Parents may get angry if you eat up what they cook in 15 minutes.(F )5. This passage mainly tells us that family meals are important.( T)8阅读理解简答（填空），共5题。-不超过5个单词。A.Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants and his aim is to find it and buy it. The price is a