【正文】 2020 年 4 月收集的真題 閱讀理解 Passage One When weather is hot, you go to a lake or an ocean. When you are near a lake or an ocean, you feel cool. Why? The sun makes the earth hot, but it cannot make the weather very hot. Although, the air over the earth bees hot, the air over the water stays cool. The hot air over the earth rises. Then the cool air over the water moves in and takes the place of the hot air. When you are near a lake or an ocean, you feel the cool air when it moves in .You feel the wind, and the wind makes you feel cool. Of course, scientists cannot answer all of our questions. If we ask, “Why is the ocean full of salt?” scientists will say that the salt es form rocks. When a rock gets very hot or very cold, it cracks. Rain falls into the cracks. The rain then carries the salt into the earth and into the rivers. The rivers carry the salt into the ocean. But then we ask, “What happens to the salt in the ocean? The ocean does not get more salty every year.” Scientists are not sure about the answer o this question. We know a lot about our world. But there are still many answers that we do not have, and we are curious. 6. The main idea of the passage is ____________. A. people feel cool when they are near a lake or an ocean B. scientists can explain everything we want to know C. scientists can explain many things except one thing D. the salt in the ocean es from rocks 7. You feel cool when you are near a lake or an ocean because ________. A. the water is not so hot as the earth. B. the earth is hot C. the water is colder than the earth D. cool air from the water moves towards the land 8. Now scientists know _______. A. what makes people feel cool near a lake or an ocean in summer B. everything about the ocean C. why the ocean does not get more and more salty D. what happens to the salt in the ocean 9. A rock cracks when _________. A. rain falls B. it gets very hot C. it gets very cold D. either B or C 10. People are always curious about the world around them because ___________. A. they know nothing about it B. they know little about it C. there are answers they do not have D. there are a lot of interesting stories about it Passage Two If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will bee weak, when you start using them again, they slowly bee strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to bee strong. If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parent may be blamed, and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember thing, they cannot write them down in a small notebook. They have to remember days, names songs and stories, so their memory is the whole time being exercises. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from people 。 practices remembering things in a way as other people do. 6. Someone can’t have a good memory if ________. A. he can’t read or write B. he doesn’t use his memory C. his parents haven’t a good memory D. he doesn’t use his arms or legs for some time 7. If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, _________________. A. they bee weak forever. B. they are always strong. C. they bee weak but they slowly bee strong again D. they bee weak and won’t bee strong until you use them again. 8. Which of the following is true? A. The way that your memory works is different from that of your arms or legs. B. Your memory bees weak if you do not give it enough chance for practice. C. Don’t learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory. D. A good memory es from less practice. 9. Few people know that it is only ______ if a friend has a poor memory. A. his own fault B. his parent’s fault C. his teacher’s fault D. his grandmothers’ fault 10. The writer wants to tell us ___________. A. how to use our arms or legs B. how to have strong arms C. how to have a good memory D. how to learn from the people Passage Three A million tourists go to Barcelona every year. They want to see Antonio Gaude’s church. This unusual church has a strange history. Gaude was born in Spain in 1852. He had to work and study at the same time. He often missed classes because he had to work, but one day he designed a very unusual showcase for an exhibition in Paris. People began to give him work. He designed houses, offices and gardens. They were all very unusual. He was soon rich and famous. Then a rich bookseller said, “Will you build a church for the poor people of Barcelona? I will pay. I will build schools and workshops, too. They will help the people.” “I will do it,” said Gaudi. He worked for forty years, but he could not finish the church. It was too big. He needed $10,000,000. He gave all his money to the church. He was poor again when he died in 1926, and only the front of the church was finished. But architects, engineers and tourists from all over the world e to see it. It is very strange, very modern and very revolutionary. 6. Which of the following titles best fits the passage? A. Barcelona a Famous City B. A Strange History of an Unusual Church C. A Poor Architect’s Unusual Works D. Antonio Gaudi’s Life 7