【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 esting people. Some are rich, 2 are poor. One or two are dishonest, but the others tell the truth most of the time. On the whole, I like my job and I am good at it. I type fast. I have a good 3 . I don’t talk, but I’m a good 4 . I’m probably the best listener in the entire city and I 5 stupid. I have a very stupid face. People look at me, and then they explain things to me very slowly. Other reporters ask people a lot of questions and 6 them angry, but I just look stupid and soon I am getting a lot of 7 : many uninteresting ideas, many irrelevant(不相關(guān)的 ) facts, but always 8 interesting news for my newspaper. I have a method for 9 news from the ordinary men in the street. Let me give you 10 . Yesterday afternoon I needed information about recreation for elderly 11 people in the city. I went to the park, sat on a bench 12 the sun, and waited. Soon, an old lady came and sat next to me. She carried two large paper bags and an old handbag. I sat quietly beside her for about ten minutes, and then I 13 a chocolate bar slowly. I made a lot of 14 with the paper wrapping. Next, I offered her a piece of my chocolate. After that, she told me about 15 . She doesn’t have real home. She and two friends sleep in the bus station。 on warm days she es to the park with her few belongings in two paper bags. Later, we went to a restaurant for a cup of coffee and a sandwich. I 16 , of course, I didn’t 17 any notes. I asked her a few questions about recreation, but she wasn’t interested in 18 . She needed money and a place to live in, she said. She told me a lot about the bus station. I gave her a dollar and some 19 . Finally, I 20 her in the park, went back to the office, and typed up some notes for my newspaper. 1. A. many B. much C. little D. any 2. A. others B. the others C. the other D. another 3. A. brain B. thinking C. mind D. memory 4. A. listener B. speaker C. reporter D. lecturer 5. A. seemed B. look C. am D. must be 6. A. get B. let C. cause D. make 7. A. reasons B. ideas C. information D. experience 8. A. little B. a little C. a few D. few 9. A. getting B. having C. receiving D. accepting 10. A. a model B. an example C. an idea D. a story 11. A. rich B. bad C. poor D. wealthy 12. A. under B. below C. at D. in 13. A. took B. unwrapped C. made D. ate 14. A. sound B. voice C. noise D. voices 15. A. her B. hers C. herself D. of her 16. A. bought B. cost C. spent D. paid 17. A. take B. write C. put D. get 18. A. which B. what C. them D. that 19. A. money B. bill C. change D. cheque 20. A. left B. kept C. took D. stopped III. 閱讀理解。 (2X15=30) A You’ve just got a new puter and you are delighted with it. It is doing everything you want it to do. But what are you going to do with your old puter? In the past consumers have often paid high prices for their old puters, but how much do you think these puters are worth now? Few people want to buy a puter which has bee outofdate or has been replaced by a newer mode. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do with a puter which you have ad for five or six years is to throw it away with your other garbage. What do many people do when they try to sell their old puters? Foolishly, they take into account its original cost and then reduce the price according to the age of the puter rather like a secondhand car. They fet that new puters are being cheaper every day, making old puters almost worthless. In 1985, for example, a good puter cost over $4,000. Then years later its owner would be lucky to get $ 400. One wellknown puter magazine recently piled a list of 10 things to do with an old puter. One suggestion was to donate it to charity or give it as one of the small prizes in a petition. The final suggestion was to keep it in a safe place and hope that it would bee a collector’s item in 15 or 20 years — though the article in the magazine admitted that in 15 or 20 years, there may be so many old puters that they will all be worthless. 1. What does the underlined part mean? A. Fashionable B. No longer fashionable C. Second hand D. Worthless 2. The best way to do with an old puter is _________. A. to throw it away B. to evaluate it and sell it C. to donate it to the poor D. keep it at home 3. How many ways are mentioned in the passage to do with an old puter? A. 10 B. 12 C. 5 D. 4 4. The title of the passage could be __________. A. Throw Away Your old puter B. How Much Does An Old Computer Cost Now? C. My Old Computer D. Unless Computer B The money for the space program of the United States has been questioned by some people. There are suggestions that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Some people believe that the Apollo to the moon could have been better and more cheaply done by robots. Their arguments may have some value. It is true, however, that never in history was mankind so united or so focused on one event as when Neil A. Armstrong climbed down a ladder from the Apollo and stepped onto the moon. The effect of feelings of this event is someth