A good dictionary can serve as your best friend and best teacher。（)

A.a good dictionary should be bought

B.buying a good dictionary is necessary

C.you should buy a good dictionary

D.it is necessary that you will buy a good dictionary

A.Good idea

B.Just go ahead

C.You are welcome

D.You’d better not

Books are a ______ provider of knowledge and pleasure and some types of books sould be in every home, such as a good dictionary, a good encyclopedia and so on.

A.meaningful

B.perfect

C.replaceable

D.wonderful

A.As

B.with time

C.be changed

D.every ten years

— Can I help you with your suitcase？ rn—________________.

A、I have no idea

B、No， no. I can carry it myself

C、That’s a good idea

D、Thank you. I can manage myself

(阅读理解题)A few years ago I was shopping with a friend and his 12-year-old daughter in downtown San Francisco. A street musician, whom my friend happened to know from his own musician days, was playing the saxophone (萨克斯管) on a street corner. His name was Clifford, and he had attracted a large crowd with his performance. After he finished, my friend introduced him to me and his daughter. Clifford asked her if she played any instrument. When she replied that she was taking trumpet (小号) lessons and played in her junior high school band, he said, “That is fine, little lady. Learn your instrument well and you can play anything.” Somehow these simple yet wise words struck me as appropriate not only for a trumpet player but also for a reader. If you learn to read well, you can read anything you want—not just newspapers and magazines, but more difficult material like philosophy, file criticism, military history—whatever interests you as your confidence grows. You would not be limited in any way. If you have the vocabulary—or at least a good dictionary near at hand—you can pick up a book, concentrate on it, and make sense of the author's words. In the United States, reading instruction often ends at elementary school, so students sometimes have difficulty as they progress through school. They must take their assignments armed only with their elementary school reading skills. The result, too often, is frustration and loss of confidence. And the assigned reading in your college courses will be even greater than they were in high school. Developing Reading Skills is designed to accomplish several tasks to show you the skills that will enable you to read with greater comprehension, to help you cope with reading assignments with confidence, and to teach you to become an active reader.

(1).The author develops his point by starting with ______.

A、an example

B、an accident

C、a statement

D、a contrast

(2).Which of the following statements is implied in Paragraph 1？

A、Clifford was good at playing the saxophone

B、The author’s friend was once a street musician

C、The 12-year-old girl played the trumpet very poorly

D、Clifford was a good music teacher

(3).How does the author think about Clifford’s words？

A、humorous, correct, simple

B、ridiculous, incorrect, ludicrous

C、wise, plain, correct

D、stupid, useless, incorrect

(4).With good reading skills, you can ______.

A、understand anything you read with few difficulties

B、work out the author's meaning if only you concentrate on the book

C、understand what you read with the help of a good dictionary

D、concentrate on whatever you read

(5).It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Developing Reading skills ______.

A、is directed to elementary school students

B、centers around vocabulary building skills

C、offers elementary reading skills

D、aims at helping students read better

下面程序段执行结果为 x=Int(Rnd()+3) Select Case x Case 5 Print "excellent" Case 4 Print "good" Case 3 Print"pass" Case Else Print"fail" End Select

A．excellent

B．good

C．pass

D．fail

Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension (75 points)

Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

Passage One

Are you a good reader？ Good readers know that reading isn't just about knowing words— it's a way of thinking. Here are some tips that may be of some help.

Think before you read. Before you read the text, ask yourself the questions that why you are reading it and what you want to get from it. These will help you choose what words you need to know and what words you can skip or scan.

Think while you are reading. Can you get the meaning of the text without looking up new words in a dictionary？ A text will often give examples that may help you understand some words. For example: Many large Russian cities, such as Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk, have taken steps to protect their culture. The words "Chelyabinsk' and "Irkutsk' may be new to us, but the sentences before and after it tell us what they are.

Think after you read. What is the main idea of the text？ Is the text too easy or too hard for you？

If you practice reading and thinking in this way, you will become a better reader and you will learn better and faster.

31. This passage is probably taken from______.

A. a newspaper for general readers

B. a magazine for language teachers

C. a book for language learners

D. an advertisement for a new book

ut something bigger, better, or more attractive than the product, they use that very popular word "like". The word "like" is the advertiser’s equivalent of the magician’s use of misdirection. "Like" gets you to ignore the product and concentrate on the claim the advertiser is making about it. "For skin like peaches and cream" claims the ad for a skin cream. What is this ad really claiming？ It doesn’t say this cream will give you peaches-and-cream skin. There is no verb in this claim, so it doesn’t even mention using the product. How is skin ever like "peaches and cream" ？ Remember, ads must be read exactly according to the dictionary definition of words. This ad is making absolutely no promise for this skin cream. If you think this cream will give you soft, smooth, and youthful-looking skin, you are the one who has read the meaning into the ad.

The wine that claims "It’s like taking a trip to France" wants you to think about a romantic evening in Paris as you walk along the street after a wonderful meal in an intimate cart. Of course, you don’t really believe that a wine can take you to France, but the goal of the ad is to get you to think pleasant, romantic thoughts about France and not about how the wine tastes or how expensive it may be. That little word "like" has taken you away from crushed grapes into a world of your own imaginative making. Who knows, maybe the next time you buy wine, you'll think those pleasant thoughts when you see this brand of wine, and you'll buy it.

How about the most famous "like" claim of all, "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should"？ Ignoring the grammatical error here, you might want to know what this claim is saying. Whether a cigarette tastes good or bad is a subjective judgment because what tastes good to one per son may well taste horrible to another. There are many people who say that all cigarettes taste terrible, other people who say only some cigarettes taste all right, and still others who say all cigarettes taste good.

The word "like" in an ad often focuses the consumer’s attention on ______.

A．what the advertiser says about the product

B．what magic the product really possesses

C．why the advertiser promotes the product

D．why the product is as good as promised

Successful Language Learners

If we take a close look at successful language learners, we may discover a few techniques which make language learning easier for them.

First of all, successful language learners are independent learners They do not depend on books or teachers; they discover their own way to learn the language.Instead of waiting for the teacher to explain everything, they try to find the patterns and the rules for themselves.They are good guessers who look for clues and form. their own conclusions.

Successful language learning is active learning.Therefore, successful learners do not wait for a chance to use the language; they look for such·~chance.They find people who speak the language and ask these people to collect them when they make a mistake.They will try anything to communicate.When communication is difficult, they can accept information

that is inexact or incomplete.It is more important for them to learn to think in the language than to know the meaning of every word.

Finally, successful language learners are learners with a purpose.They want to learn a language, because they are interested in the language and the people who speak it.It is necessary for them to learn the language in order to communicate with these people and to learn from them.

31.What is the purpose of this passage？ ()

A.To explain the importance of language learning.

B.To teach people to speak English.

C.To introduce some useful techniques of language learning.

D.To compare language learning with language teaching.

32.Which one of the following statements is true about successful language learners according to the passage？ ()

A.They are more intelligent than others.

B.They use special techniques.

C.They have good teachers and good books.

D.They spend much more time learning than others.

33.According to the passage, when successful language learners meet some new words, they usually().

A.pay no attention to them

B.look them up in the dictionary at once

C.ask their teachers

D.try to guess their meanmgs

34.Successful language learning is active, so successful learners().

A.look for a chance to use the language

B.wait for a chance to use the language

C.try to avoid using the language

D.only use the language in class

35.Successful language learners want to learn the language because().

A.they have to pass the examination

B.they have interest in the language

C.they think it's very easy to learn the language

D.they want to find better jobs