or half a year, go over the first book again; you are sure to understand much more than before … Young people have good memories. If you memorize a few words every day and keep on reading all the time, in four or five years, you will certainly be able to read works in the foreign language.

52. In order to master a foreign language, words and grammatical rules are ________ A. the most important thing C. all we should remember

B. necessary D. almost enough

53. If you can’t understand it all when you read a book, you should _______ A. start with its beginning again

B. look up the new words in your dictionary and recite them C. start another one and go over the first one later D. stop to learn the grammatical rules in the book

54. What’s Lu Xun’s advice on how to learn foreign languages? A. Memorize as many new words as you can when you are young B. Keep on reading all the time.

C. Force yourself to read a book until you can understand it all. D. Never give up reading and try to remember new words in reading books. 55. This passage mainly tells us how to _______ A. do our reading C. memorize new words

( B )

A beautiful and very successful actress (女演员) was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the countryside, but she did not want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the centre of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colours.

It was very difficult to get tickets for her show, because everybody wanted to see it. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter’s bill (帐单). At the bottom of it were these words: “ Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance : 3 pounds,” with this note: “ After 5 p.m. I get 15 shillings (先令) an hour instead of 10 shillings.”

56. The actress bought a house in the centre of the city because _______. A. she liked to live in the busiest place. B. she didn’t like to live in the country. C. her home was far away from where she worked.

B. turn to dictionaries D. use grammatical rules

D. she didn’t want to go back to her hometown any longer.

57. In order to make the painter work better for her, the actress ___________. A. gave him two tickets for her show B. sang and danced for him for hours C. paid him 3 pounds

D. decided to pay him 15 shillings an hour 58. The actress got the painter’s bill ______. A. to ask for the money of his painting work. B. to ask to pay for his watching her show C. in which he showed his thanks for the tickets D. in which he expressed his dissatisfaction

59. It can be learned from the text that one pound is___________ shillings. A. 10

B. 12

C. 20

D. 15

60. What kind of man was the painter? A. He was a careful man. dances.

(C)

Giant leap for China

A few days ago， he was just Colonel (上校) Yang; few people knew his name or recognized his face. But last Thursday，when he came back to the earth after a 21-hour trip to space，Yang Liwei’s smile was seen across the world above the magic words: \

The 38-year-old astronaut was sent into space at 9 a.m. last Wednesday by China’s Shenzhou V spacecraft，which went around the earth 14 times. He landed safely at 6:23 a.m. the next day, making China the third country to successfully send a person into space, after the former Soviet Union and the US.

Yang was satisfied with his job. \have seen many landing scenes before on video，and I think ours was one of the most successful，\Beijing after landing. Born into an ordinary family in Liaoning Province，he became a pilot in the Chinese Air Force in 1987，spending 1,350 hours in the air. He joined the Chinese space programme 11 years later. While in space, Yang recorded everything he saw as well as showing China’s national flag and the United Nations' flag to the people watching on TV at home. He also ate a meal of diced chicken and fried rice，before taking a 3-hour nap. The whole project went according to plan， but space exploration is not as easy as it seems.

Anyone who saw the destruction of the US space shuttle（航天飞机）Columbia on February this year will know that Yang took a great risk.

B. He was a poor man.

D. He knew little about music and

C. He was not friendly to others.

He experienced extremely (=very) high temperatures，while the gravitational forces (重力) on take-off and landing were strong enough to force tears from his

eyes. He has spent five years training to become a spaceman. \all of my meals at the space programme’s dinning room and have never been able to take my son to kindergarten (幼儿园),\China’s first spaceman has made all the effort worthwhile (值得的). \boarded (=got on) the spacecraft for the first time, I couldn’t help feeling excited,\decided that I had to fly it.\people, Yang is now a hero. One visitor to a Xinhua news agency online forum (网上论坛) said: \trip is a giant leap (巨大的飞跃) forward for China.\Officials say the next Shenzhou will be launched by 2005. China also plans to develop space walking and a space lab. 61. What is the main idea of the story? A. China’s first manned space flight. B. A hero with great courage C. The first Chinese man in space

D. How Yang Liwei became China’s first spaceman 62. How long did each of Yang’s orbits take on average? A. 1 hour. B. 1.5 hours. C. 6 hours.

D. The story didn’t mention.

63. Why did the writer use \

A. Because the space flight marked China’s great progress in the field of space exploration.

B. Because Yang said it was a \V

C. Because the space flight was a huge success. D .Both A and B

(D)

For a small town, Manhattan, Kansas has some big surprises. And one of them is the Holiday Inn Hotel, with rooms built around a swimming pool and a friendly family atmosphere.

The Holiday Inn is where Manhattan people often go for a special party, or a night out. A lot of them choose to eat in the brightly lit restaurant near the pool. And many of them will be served by Ellen Logan, who has worked as a waitress here for more than two years .

Ellen, like most of the waitresses, is also a student. She comes from Nebraska, but she’s planning one day to be a veterinary surgeon, and to care for small animals. But in order to support herself at college, she works twenty hours a week at the Holiday Inn.

Ellen soon learned what every waitress finds out. Your best friend has a good pair of shoes. She paid forty - five dollars for hers, much more than she would usually spend. She’s discovered something else too. You don’t have to know much about food to be a good waitress, but you do have to know a lot about people.

“A lot of business people always stay here when they come to Manhattan, ” she explains. “They like you to recognize them and remember their favorite dishes. But some couples come for a night out together. They just want to be left alone. Then there are people who can’t make up their minds. They look down the menu and say‘What do you suggest?’So I ask them how hungry they are. If they say, ‘Not very’, I suggest the salad bar, with soup, salad, bread, and a fruit plate. But if they say they’re very hungry, I suggest a Kansas Strip Steak, with potatoes or rice. You get salad and bread as well. It’s very nice. Real good value.”

Ellen may get tired feet sometimes, but at least she’s learning too much about people . She’ll probably make a good animal doctor, but if she find she doesn’t like it after all, she can always become a psychiatrist（心理医生）instead.” 64．A good title for this passage is________ . A. Ellen Logan at the Holiday Inn B. American Holiday Inn

C. A Special Holiday Inn Hotel in Manhattan D. How to Deal with People

65．The word“a veterinary surgeon” means________.

A. an animal doctor. B. an animal trainer C. a hotel manager D. a food expert 66．From the passage we can infer that________.

A. waitresses in the Holiday Inn are all students

B. waitresses are required to buy a good pair of shoes before they go to work C. waitresses should be familiar with the food there

D. it is more important for the waitresses to know much about people than food 67．According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? A. The Holiday Inn hotel is one of the big surprises in Manhattan.

B. Businessmen like to be recognized by the people and suggested what to eat. C. The couples like to be left alone.

D. One of the reasons why people like to eat in the hotel is that it is full of

a friendly atmosphere.

( E )

Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher，no matter how much he knows can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

It is always more important to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or