【正文】 B. municating with birds and bees C. changing its leaf chemistry D. shaking caterpillars off3. According to the passage, the willow tree was able to municate with other trees by ______. A. waving its branches B. giving off a special smell C. dropping its leaves D. changing the colour of its trunk4. According to this passage, bees municate by ______. A. making special movement B. touching one another C. smelling one another D. making unusual sound5. The author believes that the incident described in the passage ______. A. cannot be taken seriously B. should no longer be permitted C. must be checked more thoroughly D. seems pletely reasonableKeys1B 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 DPassage 13A nobleman and a merchant once met in an inn. For their lunch they both ordered soup. When it was brought, the nobleman took a spoonful, but the soup was so hot that he burned his mouth and tears came to his eyes, The merchant asked him why he was weeping. The nobleman was ashamed to admit (承認(rèn)) that he had burned his mouth and answered, “Sir, I once had a brother who mitted a great crime (犯罪), for which he was hanged. I was thinking of his death, and that made me weep.” The merchant believed this story and began to eat his soup. He too burned his mouth, so that he had tears in his eyes. The nobleman noticed it and asked the merchant, “Sir, why do you weep?” The merchant, who now saw that the nobleman had deceived (欺騙) him, answered, “My lord(=master), I am weeping because you were not hanged together with your brother.”1. This story teaches us ______. A. not to eat in inns B. not to eat soup that is too hot cry when we burn our mouth D. not to believe everything you hear2. The nobleman did not tell the truth because he ______. A. was a nobleman felt ashamed C. was in an inn D. was angry3. The nobleman should have ______. A. smiled with joy B. shouted with laughter C. told the truth D. scolded the waiter4. It is probable that the nobleman ______. A. had no brother who was hanged B. had a very good brother C. knew the soup was too hot D. had never eaten soup5. The merchant’s answer showed that be ______. A. was very happy B. believed the nobleman C. was angry with the nobleman D. had kind heartKeys1D 2 B 3 C 4 A 5 CPassage 14When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find acmodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of acmodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories. “We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.” I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ‘VACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacaciones’. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ‘VACANCLES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCLES’, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels! We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word ‘DIVERSION’ means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word ‘DIVERSION’ on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold. English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more coffee, I said ‘Thank you’ in French. I meant that I would like some more, However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that ‘Thank you’ in French means ‘No, thank you.’1. My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______. A. learning English B. finding places to stay in England C. driving their car on English roads D. going to England by car2. I suggested that they stay at bed and breakfast houses because ______. A. they would be able to practise their English B. it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels C. it would be convenient for them to have dinner D. there would be no problem about finding acmodation there3. “NO VACANCIES” in English means ______. A. no free rooms B. free rooms C. not away on holiday D. holidays4. If you see a road sign that says ‘Diversion’, you will ______. A. fall into a hole B. have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself C. find that the road is blocked by crowds of people D. have to take a different road5. When someone offered me more coffee and I said ‘Thank you’ in French, I ______. A didn’t really want any more coffee B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away C. really wanted some more coffee D. wanted to express my politenessKeys 1B 2 A 3 A 4 D 5 C Passage 15A beautiful and very successful actress was the star of a new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didn’t want to have to go back there every night, so she rented (租用) an expensive flat in the centre of the city, bought some beautiful furniture (家具) and hired a man to paint the rooms in new colours. It was very difficult to get tickets for her show because everybody wanted to see it, so