英语试题

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

（A）

As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly.

“It’s all right, officer.” he said, reassuring（使放心）.“I’m just waiting for a friend. It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain if you’d like to make certain it’s all straight. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands—‘Big Joe’ s Brady’ s restaurant.”

“Until five years ago, ” said the policeman, “it was torn down then.”

The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with eager eyes and a little white scar（伤疤）near his right eyebrow. His scarfpin（围巾扣）was a large diamond strangely set.

“Twenty years ago tonight,” said the man, “I dined here at‘Big Joe’ Brady’s with Jimmy Wells, my best friend, and the finest man in the world. He and I were raised here in New York; just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn’t have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from the date and time. No matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We believed that in twenty years each of us ought to have our wish worked out and our fortunes made. Whatever they were going to be.”

“It sounds pretty interesting. ” said the policeman.“Rather a long time between the meets, though, it seems to me. Haven’t you heard from your friend since you left?”

“Well, yes, for a time we kept in touch, ”said the other,“but after a year or two we lost track of each other. You see, the West is a pretty big place, and I kept running over it pretty lively. But I know Jimmy will meet me here if he’s alive, for he always was the truest, dependable old friend in the world. He’ll never forget. I came a thousand miles to stand at this door tonight, and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up.”

The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch. The lid of it set with small diamonds.

“Three minutes to ten,”he announced.“It was exactly ten o’clock when we parted here at the restaurant door.”

56．From the text, we can learn that the waiting man .

A．liked to live in his hometown B．grew up in the West

C．seemed to have made some money D．used to work for“Big Joe”Brady’s restaurant

57．The reason why the man left New York was that he .

A．thought the West was a better place for his development

B．planned to meet his friend 20 years later

C．didn’t like to live in a big city

D．thought the West was a better place to travel

58．Which of the following shows the right order of what happened in the story?

a. The man was waiting for Jimmy at the old place.

b. The man made an appointment with Jimmy and left New York.

c. The “Big Joe” Brady’s restaurant was destroyed

d. They kept in touch with each other for a time.

e. The man arrived in New York from the West.

A．e, a, b, d, c B．e, b, d, c, a C．b, d, c, e, a D．b, a, d, e,c

59．The underlined word“they”in the fifth paragraph refers to .

A．the man and Jimmy Wells B．the policeman and his fellow workmates

C．some things that are uncertain D．the wish and fortunes of the two friends

（B）

Australia, with the pacific Ocean to the east and the Indian Ocean to the west, is a very large country, while its population is very small Another interesting fact is that one out of five Australians was not born in Australia. Most of the population are in the southeast part. Three out of every five people live in five big cities. Sydney is the biggest city with a population of 3 million. Melbourne in Victoria has a population of about 3 million. Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth each has about one million. All of these cities, except Perth, which faces the Indian Ocean, are in the east and southeast of the country.

The capital city of Australia, Canberra, is not very big. Only about a quarter of a million live there. Hobart in Tasmania, which is to the south of the main land of Australia, is even smaller and Darwin, which is in North Australia, is a very small city. It has a population of under 40,000.

60．What is probably the population of Australia according to this passage?

A．3,000,000 B．15,000,000 C．30,000,000 D．45,000,000

61．Which of the following cities has the second largest population?

A．Canberra B．Melbourne C．Victoria D．Sydney

62．Which of the following maps shows the right positions of Canberra, Perth, Hobart and Darwin?

63．The passage is mainly about .

A．the big cities of Australia.

B．the area of Australia

C．the history of Australia

D．the distribution（分布）of Australia’s population

（C）

64． will be on April 17. The cinema’s telephone number is .

A．Kim’s War:29798663 B．My Love, My Bride:32275694

C．Because You Are a Woman: 68415566 D．Sopyorye : 29189188

65． will give a song and dance show at 7:30 p. m. tonight at Shanghai Centre Theatre.

A．Leon Lai, a Hong Kong pop star

B．The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra

C．The Song and Dance Troupe of the Republic of Korea

D．A Russian Phiharmonic Orchestra

66．The address of the Shanghai Centre Theatre is .

A．1111 Caoxi Road N B．1376 Nanjing Road W

C．532 Yan’an Road M D．66 Jiangning Road

67．According to the advertisement, a six yuan ticket is for .

A．Russian Concert B．Korean Songs

C．South Korean Films D．Leon’s Show

（D）

Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of .It serves directly to bring about a rapid sale of goods at reasonable prices, so setting up a firm home market and making it possible to provide for export（出口）at good prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps greatly to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it causes an increased need for labour, and is therefore a nice way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television program would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or subway would cost more.

And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a promise of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Besides the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament（国会）govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare produce anything that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.

He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for the public has the good sense not to buy the poor goods more than once. If you see product frequently advertised, it is the proof I know that the product does what is promised for it, and that it has good value.

Advertising does more for the good of the public than any other force I can think of.

There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television person declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was telling us the real difference. Of course advertising tries to persuade.

68．By the first sentence of the passage the writer means that .

A．he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

B．everybody knows well that advertising is a waste of money

C．advertising costs more money than everything else

D．money on advertising is worth spending

69．In the passage, which of the following is NOT included in the advantages of advertising?

A．Getting greater fame. B．Providing more jobs.

C．Raising living standards. D．Reducing newspaper cost.

70．The writer thinks that the well-known TV person is .

A．quite right in passing his judgement on advertising

B．interesed in nothing but the buyers’ attention

C．correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information

D．obviously unfair in his views on advertising

71．In the writer’s opinion, .

A．advertising can seldom bring material interest to man by providing information

B．advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over

C．there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the buyer

D．the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement

（E）

Researchers have announced the results of two studies on the health effects of the drug aspirin（阿斯匹林）.One study shows aspirin can sharply reduce the chance that a healthy, older man will suffer from a heart attack.

The study offered two new results from earlier findings. It said taking one aspirin pill every other day helped only healthy men over the age of fifty. It also said aspirin gave the greatest protection against heart attacks to men with low blood cholesterol（胆固醇）levels.

Earlier studies showed that aspirin reduced the chance of heart attacks in men with heart disease. But there was no proof that aspirin would do the same for healthy men.

Researchers in the United States began a major aspirin study in the early 1980s. It included 22,000 healthy male doctors. All were between the age of forty and eighty-four. More than 11,000 of the doctors took one aspirin pill every other day. Each pill contained 325 milligram of aspirin. The other 11,000 doctors took a harmless pill that contained no drug. The men did not know which kind of pill they were taking.

The doctors who took aspirin suffered 44 percent fewer heart attacks than those taking the harmless pill. 139 men who took aspirin suffered from heart attacks. Ten of them died. 239 men who did not take aspirin suffered form heart attacks. Twenty-six of them died.

The researchers said the doctors’ study provides clear proof that taking aspirin can prevent a first heart attack in healthy, older men. They said, however, the result do not mean every man over the age of fifty should take aspirin. They said aspirin cannot help men who do not eat healthy foods, who smoke cigarettes and who are fat. The researchers said men who think they would be helped by taking aspirin should talk with their doctors first.

72．The passage tells us that the new use of aspirin is .

A．to treat heart disease

B．to reduce pain while one suffers form a heart attack

C．to help old people to be more healthy

D．to reduce the chance of a heart attack in old men

73．Aspirin can help those who .

A．work as doctors B．are under 40 years old

C．are fat and smoke cigarettes D．are older and healthy

74．At last the researchers advise us to take aspirin .

A．with care B．as much as we like

C．every day D．only considering the age

75．From the experiment we can conclude that about of people who suffered from heart

attacks without aspirin died.

A．7% B．11% C．19% D．44%

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