Part 3 Reading and Writing
IX. Reading Comprehension （ 阅读理解）:（共 50 分）
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（第三部分读与写）
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A. Choose the best answer （根据文章内容，选择最恰当的答案
Basic Photography
）：（12分）
This is an eight-hour course for begi nners who want to lear n how to use a 35mm camera. The teacher will cover such areas as kinds of film, light, and len ses （镜头）.Bring your own 35mm camera to the class.
Course Charge: $150
Jan. 9, 11, 16, 18, Tues. & Thurs. 6-8 pm
Maria nne Adams is a professi onal photographer whose photographs appear in many magaz in es.
This twelve-hour course is for people who don't know very much about computers, but who n eed to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can't do, and how to use them.
Course Charge:$75 Equipme nt Charge:$10 Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27, Sat. 9-12 am
Joseph Saimders is a professor of computer scienee at New Area Uni versity. He has over twelve years of experie nee in the computer field.
Stop Smok ing
Have you already tried to stop smoking and failed? Now it is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking without pain or any medicine, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.
Course Charge:$30
Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29, Mon. 4-7 pm
Joh n Goode is an experie need doctor who has helped hun dreds of people stop smok ing.
Typi ng
This course on weekdays is for those who want to type as well as those who want to improve their typing. You are tested in the first class and practise at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to lear n at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.
Course Charge: $125 Materials Charge: $25
Two hours each evening for two weeks.
This course is taught by a nu mber of bus in ess educati on teachers who have successfully taught typ ing courses before.
If you are in terested, please call 5647 8833, or con tact us at wwW.redstar.c n. You can also fill the form given and mail it to 781 N. Blue Lake Street, Green Island.
（ ）69. You n eed to pay _____ if you want to lear n someth ing about tak ing pictures.
A.$30
B.$75
C.$125
D.$150
（ ）70. Which can be filled in the \
A. Desig ning computers C. Un dersta nding computers
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B. Commun icat ing on li ne D. Lear ning computer games
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( )71. If you take the third course, you can give up smok ing _____ .
A. i n a more pleasa nt way C. by tak ing the latest medici ne
B. with the help of Joseph Saimders D. i n twelve hours
( )72. You'll be give n a test in the first typ ing class so that you can know ____ .
A. how many hours of classes you should take in two weeks B. which typ ing skill level you are at C. what kind of bus in ess you should lear n D. how much you n eed to pay for each program ( )73. This advertiseme nt is probably made by a/an ______ .
A. travela gency B. amuseme nt park C. exhibiti on cen tre D. trai ning centre ( )74. The advertiser has offered _____ ways to con tact them.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
(选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短
B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage
文)(12分)
In today's En glish class, stude nts had a speech competiti on. They talked about whether e-books should take the place of print books. The follow ing are the speeches give n by two stude nts.
Joshua Lee:
While many people argue that e-books don't feel the same as \books, we should con sider that the printing in dustry does a lot of harm to our 75 ___________ . Produc ing books means cutt ing dow n milli ons of trees for paper, and the processes of printing requires a great deal of energy. E-books need no papers at all. They will probably _76 our use of en ergy and n atural resources.
77 , e-books allow people to get information more easily. E-books can be stored and
selected from huge digital libraries. These libraries can hold many more books than a traditional bookstore or library can. People can quickly find and read their books on an e-reader at any time and in any place.
Joy Pamn ami:
I stron gly believe that print books must 78
. In my opinion, e-books have many disadva ntages.
E-books aren't as en vir onmen tally frie ndly as you th ink. A com mon argume nt used by e-book supporters is that e-books save paper: But isn't it also true that there's more carb on being let out by the electr onic devices (设备)?
Since you have to spe nd extra money on those devices before you can buy and read e-books, they aren't 79 at all. Besides, you can't easily write no tes on an e-reader, and you can't read anything whe n they run out of battery.
E-books are un healthy too. The light give n off by these devices can lead to read print books. ( )75. A. traditio n ( )76. A. reduce ( )77. A. As a result ( )78. A. cha nge ( )79. A. cheap
B. environment B. protect B. By the way B. help B. useful
C. health C. describe
C. On one hand C. stay C. in terest ing
D. culture D. limit
D. What's more D .return D. differe nt
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80 problem. A
study showed it took e-book readers an average of ten mi nu tes Ion ger to fall asleep tha n those who
( )80. A. readi ng B. memory C. sleep D. eat ing
C. Fill in the bla nks with proper words ( 限填一词，首字母已给)(14分)
在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格
The in haler (喷雾剂)was lying there on the table. Cassie froze. \
She looked at the little green c __________ (81) on the cooker-- 12:17. The train
would 1eave at 12:34 and her gra ndpa had bee n gone around four minu tes. Could she - if she ran like a racehorse - get to the station before he got on the train?
There was no time to lose. She grabbed her jacket, her keys and her purse. Her fin gers m ________________ (82) fast to tie her shoes, but too fast to be accurate. She ope ned the front door and shut it heavily beh ind her.
Her b _______ (83) began to work fast, \
g ________ (84) which route he has take n and may be lucky eno ugh to catch up with him? Or should I just get to the station the fastest possible way and hope to be there when he arrives? But there are two entran ces to the statio n. He might take e _______ (85).What should I do?\
Cassie was worried about her gra ndfather. As she ran through the shopp ing cen ter, she pictured him sitti ng on the train, and the n s ______ (86) his breath beco ming difficult, and his face turning
pale. He would search for the in haler and it would n't be in his pocket. A man was sett ing out a table in front of his caf . There was no e *
space between him and the table. She ran into him and knocked him dow n. \breath that she only made a very w ______________ (87) so und. She knew he did n't hear her, but she could n't stop.
At last she was at the statio n. She looked at her watch. It was 12:30 and
she still had n't see n her gra ndfather:
D . Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题) (12分)
That cold January ni ght, I was grow ing sick of my life in the city I lived. There I was, walk ing home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theatre. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about givi ng up both act ing and the life in this awful place.
As I walked dow n the empty street un der tall build in gs, I felt very small and cold. \myself and bega n to do so, both to keep warm and- keep away from any possible dan ger.
About a block from my flat, I heard a sound beh ind me. I tur ned quickly, half expect ing to see some one with a knife or a gun, but the street was empty. The no ise had made me n ervous, so I started to run faster. I did n't realize what the noise had been until I reached my flat and uniocked the door. It had been my wallet falling to the street.
I was n't cold or tired any more. I ran out of the door and back to where I had heard the no ise. Although I searched the street for fiftee n minu tes, my wallet was no where to be found.
Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard a rubbish truck stop next to me. A voice called from the in side, \Camacho?\n ame? The door ope ned and a man jumped out. \you're look ing for?\
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