1、21. and we were sorry to hear about the accident. Anyway you mustnt feel too anx-ious about work. A lot of people are away on holiday this month, so theres not as much business as usual. When you are feeling a little better wed llke to come and see you, well bring you some of your favourite chocolat

2、es promise. Dont think too much about the accident. Take the medicine the doctor gives you and have a good rest. Now for office news. Have you heard that the boss is getting married again next month? She tried to keep it quiet but one of the secretaries heard her talking about wedding arrangements o

3、ver the phone, so now of course everyone knows. Were collecting money to buy her a pres ent. Its really difficult to know what to get her as she has most things. Someone has suggested theatre or concert tickets, which is a good idea. We can find out from her per-sonal assistant what her plans are an

4、d when she has a free evening. The only problem is that although we know what she likes, we dont know whether her future husband shares her tastes. All being well, well see you sometime next week. Until then we all send our good wishes and hope you recover quickly.1. What is the writer trying to do

5、in the text?A. To give some cheerful news. B. To suggest ways to recover.C. To describe her office work. D. To offer professional advice.2. The writer wrote the text _.A. to find out about a wedding presentB. to arrange to see friendsC. to learn about a persons accidentD. to help him stop worrying3.

6、 What does the writer suggest about one of the secretaries?A. Shes hard-working. B. She talks too much.C. She likes secrets. D. She enjoys weddings.4. Which of the cards below do you think is the one the writer sent?答：1. B 2. D 3. B 4. C解析：1作者提出恢復健康的方法。2文中可看出作者是安慰患者，勸其不要憂慮。3，從秘書的談話中可知老板的秘密在公司被公開，由此推

7、斷出B項。4從文章內(nèi)容可知作者是安慰同事，使其早日康復。卡片上的內(nèi)容宿是祝愿早日康復的話，故判斷c項。22To the American visitor Iceland is a very interesting country, partly because it is dif-ferent in so many ways from what he or she is used to seeing at home. There are quite a few things that are not done, or that do not exist on the islandquite a

8、 few “nos”.There is no pollution, for example. No dogs are permitted in Reykjavik, the capital. There is no television on Thursdays or during the entire month of July, and only three hours of black-and-white TV the rest of the time. There is no hard liquor on Wednesdays and no beer at any time. Ther

9、e are no handguns; only one jail of 35 cells in the entire landan admirable figure, even for a small country of 222000 people.There is no army, air force or navy. There is no tipping for anything. There are no large stores open on Saturdays and Sundays. Since Iceland is located just under the Arctic

10、 Circle, there is no darkness in summer and no daylight in winter. But thanks to the Gulf Stream, the climate is rather mild, with temperatures ranging from 34 degrees Fahrenheit to 52 degrees in July.The rules on television, liquor, and guns are the result of governmental decisiorn But the absence

11、of pollution is due in great part to the fact that Iceland get its power from the enormous geysers 間歇（噴）泉 and the thousands of hot springs that come out of ground. They provide all the energy needed by the country. In fact, Iceland uses only 3 percent of all its available power.Iceland has been desc

12、ribed as a democratic independent country where more fish are caught and more books published per person than anywhere else in the world. The Ice-landers have always felt a particular love for literature. They composed their first works in the ninth and tenth centuries AD. These works were poems and

13、 tales about the kings, heroes, and heroines of Iceland and Norway. At first the stories were memorized and pas-sed from generation to generatiom They were finally written down between 1140 and 1220. The Icelanders have never stopped writing ever since. “Rather shoeless than book-less,” they proudly

14、 say.1. The American visitor enjoys visiting Iceland because _.A. no dogs are permitted in the capitalB. the police do not carry handgunsC. the climate is rather mildD. it is very different from America2. The following statements are true EXCEPT _.A. there are no soldiers in IcelandB. the Icelaoders

15、 dont drink beerC. there is no service fee of any kindD. there are no crimes in Iceland3. It can be inferred from the passage that _.A. in winter the sun doesnt set in IcelandB. the sun rises and sets regularly in IcelandC. the climate in Iceland is rather mild because there is no daylight in winter

16、D. the sun never rises in winter and never sets in summer in Iceland4. There is no pollution in Iceland mainly because _.A. Iceland uses only 3 percent of all its available powerB. the leelanders use hot water from under ground as their energyC. it is located just under the Arctic CircleD. it is a d

17、emocratic, independent country5. “Rather shoeless than bookless” means _.A. They prefer not to have shoes or booksB. They would rather have shoes on than write booksC. They prefer shoes to booksD. They regard books more important than shoes答：1. D 2. D 3. D 4. B 5.D解析：1從第一段partly because it is differ

18、ent in so many ways.可知。2此題為事實理解屬。在冰島的幾天中，沒有提到D項。3從第三段可知Since Iceland is located just under the Arctic Circle, there is no darkness in summer and no daylight in winter。4從第四段可知。5此句童為“寧可無鞋，不可無書”，說明冰島人把書看得十分重要。23“High tech” and “state of the art” are two expressions that describe very modern technology.

19、 High tech is just a shorter way of saying high technology. And high technol-ogy describes any invention, system or device that uses the newest ideas or discoveries of science and engineering.What is high tech? A computer is high tech. So is a communications satellite. A modern manufacturing (制造業(yè)的)

20、system is surely high tech.High tech become a popular expression in the United States during the early 1980s. Pk, cause of improvements in technology, people could buy many new kinds of products inAmerican stores, such as home computers, microwave ovens (微波爐), etc. “State of the art” is something th

21、at is as modern as possible. It is a product that is based on the very latest methods and technology. Something that is “state of the art” is the newest possible design or product of a business or industry. A state of the art televi sion set, for example, uses the most modern electronic design and p

22、arts. It is the best that one can buy.“State of the art” is not a new expression. Engineers have used it for years, to de-scribe the best and most modern way of doing something.Millions of Americans hegan to use the expression in the late 1970s. The reason was the computer revolution. Every computer

23、 company claimed (聲稱) that its computers were “state of the art”.Computer technology changes so fast that a state of the art computer today might be old tomorrow. The expression “state of the art” has become as common and popular as computers themselves. Now all kinds of products are said to be “sta

24、te of the art”.1. What is the purpose of the passage?A. To tell how “high tech” and “state of the art” have developed.B. To give examples of high tech.C. To tell what “high tech” and “state of the art” are.D. To describe very modern technology.2. What can we infer from the passage?A. American stores

25、 could provide new kinds of products to the people.B. “High tech” describes a technology that is not traditional.C. “State of the art” became popular later than “high tech”.D. A wooden plough pulled by oxen is “state of the art”.3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Since the computer

26、revolution, the expression “state of the art” has become popular.B. “State of the art” means something that is the best one can buy.C. With the rapid development of computer technology, a state of the art com-purer may easily become out of date.D. All the producers claim that their products are “sta

27、te of the art” nowadays.4. The best title for the passage is_.A. Computer Technology B. High Tech and State of the ArtC. Most Advanced Technology D. Two New Expressions答：1. C 2. B 3. D 4. B解析：抓住文章的大意：如第一段總體介紹了high tech 和 state of the art是用來描述現(xiàn)代技術(shù)的詞語，第二段主要解釋了What is high tech? 第四段主要介紹了什么是state of the

28、 art。只要抓住這樣的信息相關(guān)一些題，如第1和4題便迎刃而解。第3題中提到Every computer company claimed that its computers were “state of the art”。指每家電腦公司而不是所有的產(chǎn)品，故選D項。24There is a very simple way of measuring the height nfa water-tower, which we can-not measure by climbing. Suppose, for example, that we wish to find out the height o

29、f the water-tower, AB, in a factory. We first of all go to where the water-tower is stand lng and measure a distance of, say 90 feet from it, in a straight line, marking the spot that is 90 ft from the water-tower. Then we take a stick. CD, and stand it in the ground at the spot we have just marked.

30、Let us suppose the stick were using is 4 ft in height. We now walk farther away from the water-tower in the same straight line as we measured off the distance of 90 ft. We go from the watchtower until we come to a point E, where with our heads on the ground we see the top of the stick and the top of

31、 the water-tower in the same straight linethat is, the top of the stick just covers the highest part of the water-tower.We now have two triangles (三角形) and the proportion (比例) of the side CD to the side CE in the smaller triangle. CDE. is exactly the same as the proportion of the side BA to the side

32、 BE in the larger triangle BAE. It is clear from this that every scbool boy or school girl can work out the height of the water-tower.Suppose that the line CE is 5 ft. We know that the stick is 4 ft high and the length BE is 950. From these measurements we have the simple proportion sum (算題) S is to

33、 4 as 95 is to AB.Trees and other high buildings, of course, can he easily measured by using the same way.1. According to the passage, the height of the watchtower is _.A.76 ft B. 95 ft C. 90 ft D. 180 ft2. Els _.A. a point on the ground B. a straight line on the groundC. the top of the stick D. the

34、 top of the water-tower3. The triangle CDE must be _.A. below the triangle BAE B. in the triangle BAEC. out of the triangle BAE D. over the triangle BAE4. The proportion of the side CD to the side CE is _ the proportion of the side BA to the side BE.A. bigger than B. equal toC. not as big as D. smal

35、ler than5. From the measurement, we have the simple proportion sum _.A. BA is to four as five is to ninety-fiveB. BA is to ninety-five as is to fiveC. five is to ninety-five as BA is to fourD. four is to five as BA is to ninety答：1. A 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. B解析：做好閱讀理解需要考生有較綜合的知識和能力。上述短文內(nèi)容較長，且描述較為復雜、抽象，若僅靠

36、想象作A答后面的題目勢必非常困難，若將文章內(nèi)容加以分析整理，使抽象的文字具體化，周答案就一目了然了。由圖可以看出，正點是在地面上(與C、B在同一直線上)，故第2小題答案為A，三角形CDE在；角形BAE里面，故第3小屬答案為B。根據(jù)圖示可以看出，CD與BA是平行的，故CDE與BAE是相似三角形，因此：CD:CEBA:BE。所以第4小題選B。根據(jù)相似三角形對應邊比值相等定理，假設BA為xft，則4:5=x:95，x=76 ft。所以第1題答案選A，第5小題是讓考生列出其比例關(guān)系。其中B項BA:954:5符合題意，為正確答案。25Shu Pulong has helped at least 1000

37、 people bitten (咬) by snakes. “It was seeing people with snake bites (傷口) that led me to thiscareer,” he said.In 1963, after his army service, Sbu entered a medical school and later became a doc-tor of Chinese medicine. As part of his studies he had to work in the mountains. There he often heard of

38、people who had their arms and legs cut off after a snake bite in order to save their lives.“I was greatly upset by the story of an old farmer I met. It was a very hot afternoon. The old man was pulling grass in his fields when he felt a pain in his left hand. He at once realized he had been bitten by a poisonous snake. In no time be wrapped a cloth tightly a-round his arm to stop the poison spreading to his heart. Rushing home he shouted bring me the knife! Minutes later the man lost his arm forever.”“The sad story touched me so much that I