【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ay to the Sun Hotel, Turn around and go back nine miles, then you’ll see the Sun Hotel on the left.” 56. What is John looking for? A. the Sun Hotel B. The Moon Hotel C. his home D. the old man’s house 57. Who did John meet? A. a policeman B. an old man C. an old woman D. a boy 58. Where did the old man take John to? A. the Sun Hotel B. a supermarket C. the old man’s house D. a restaurant 59. How far did John drive after the old man got on his car? A. five miles B. twelve miles C. three miles D. nine miles 60. How far was the hotel from the place the old man got on the car? A. twelve miles B. nine miles C. three miles D. five miles C Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, They can help people to save much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can’t do easily. Our country asked everyone except the old people, to learn to use puters before the twentyfirst century. Today more and more families own puters. Parents buy puters for their children. They hope puters can help them improve their studies in school. Yet, many of the children use puters to play games, to watch videos or to sing karaoke, instead of studying. So many teachers and parents plain that puters can’t help children to study but make them fall behind. So puters are locked in boxes by parents. In some other countries, even some scientists also hate puters. They say puters make millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will puters really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by today’s students themselves! 61. Our country asked everyone to learn to use puters except the ________ . A. young people B. old people C. students D. adults 62. Why do we say the puter is a useful machine? Because _____ A. Our country asks us to learn it. B. it can help us to do a lot of things. C. We can use it to play games only. D. it can help us to find jobs only. 63. What do many teachers and parents plain about? They plain about _____ . A. their students and children use puters to learn well. B. puters let them lose their jobs C. puters make their students and children fall behind D. puters bring people a lot of trouble 64. In this passage we know puters _____ A. also bring us trouble B. bring us happiness only C. are hated by people D. are good for people’s health 65. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? It means ____ A. puters are used by people B. people can live well without puters C. one must decide how to use puters D. puters are strange machine D Jack Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington. He inherited (繼承 ) a million dollars when he was 23, but he wasn’t happy at all. When his college friends were looking for their jobs, he didn’t have to. Jack decided to keep living a simple life like everyone else. He gave ﹩ 10， 000 of his money to a charity to help poor children live a happy life. Today he is 36. He still wears cheap shoes and clothes and drives a small car only, but he is very happy. Up to now Jack has helped some children from poor countries all over the world, by sending them each ﹩ 200 a month. The money was used for the children’s study, food, medicine and clothing. Jack receives a report each year on the children’s progress. They can write to each other, but usually the children do not speak English. When Jack first heard about these children, he wanted to help them. “It was nothing special,” he said. “Until I went to these countries and met the children I was helping, I didn’t know anything about their life.” Once Jack went to meet a little girl in Africa. He said that the meeting was very exciting. “When I met her, I felt very, very happy, ”he said. “And I saw that the money was used for a good cause. It brought me happiness. I want to do everything I can to go on helping those children.” 66. Jack has sent them each ﹩ 200 a month to help so me poor children ________. A. only in Washington B. only in England C. only in Africa