【正文】 所以看到Maria很慢就很不高興，面露不快的表情。 “Everyone was looking at him with disapproval.” This sentence means that the people around felt sorry for Maria’s manners. A、TB、F參考答案:B解析: 【答案】B【解析】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章最后兩句話的含義，我們很容易判斷出來：當(dāng)時周圍的人聽到了Maria和那個男士的談話，覺得那個男士很沒禮貌，而不是Maria。 The author mentioned Maria’s age at the beginning of the story in order to show that she was young but behaved properly. A、TB、F參考答案:A解析: 【答案】A【解析】推理判斷題。從文中我們可以看到，當(dāng)那位男士聽到Maria的英語時，感到很吃驚，同時大家覺得Maria要比那位男士表現(xiàn)得更得體，這正好與Maria 的年紀(jì)形成對比。 因此答案選A，來突出Maria小小年紀(jì)，卻很有禮貌。 When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for oneyear stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has bee one of America’s fastest growing businesses.What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples — people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think. 1Which of the following has bee one of America’s fastest growing businesses? A、Selling home furnishings.B、Renting furnished apartments.C、Selling used furniture.D、Renting home furnishings.參考答案:D解析: 【答案】 D 【解析】 本題表面測試的是考生對細(xì)節(jié)的捕獲能力，因為文章提到“The renting of home furnishings (beds, tables, dishes, and so on) has bee one of America’s fastest growing businesses”。但實質(zhì)上是對文章中心的理解能力。文章的中心講的就是租家具這一社會現(xiàn)象：包括何種人愿意租、其原因是什么以及人們對這一現(xiàn)象的認(rèn)識。 1Why do some people prefer to rent furniture? A、Because the furniture they get in this way is new.B、Because it saves them a lot of money.C、Because it saves them much trouble and money.D、Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.參考答案:C解析: 【答案】C【解析】本題測試了考生對文章某一部分的概括能力。選項B只回答了問題的一部分，因此選B是錯誤的。選項D過于籠統(tǒng)，文章提到“they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy”。選項A在文章中并未提到。 1What can you infer from the passage? A、The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.B、Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.C、Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture.D、People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.參考答案:B解析: 【答案】B【解析】本題測試了考生對文章的綜合理解能力。從文章的第一部分可知，這對夫婦此前還沒有想過租家具，可見在他們的家鄉(xiāng)，這種做法還不流行。文章的最后（The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.）講了這種觀念還很新，但并沒有說這種觀念不被人接受，因此，選A是錯誤的。選項C過于片面，除了錢不夠的人想租家具，還有其他人，如有國際業(yè)務(wù)的人、駐外的政府官員、外國留學(xué)生、飛機(jī)工作人員等。選項D在文中未提到。 1Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? A、Rent or Buy?B、A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings.C、Furnished Apartments.D、A New Idea.參考答案:B解析: 【答案】B【解析】本題是對考生綜合能力的測試。選項B（一種獲取家具的新途徑）既概括了主題，又有吸引力。而選項D（一種新觀念）過于籠統(tǒng)，不合適。有些考生選擇A，是因為他們沒有真正弄懂中心，實際上文章的重點在于租家具這一觀念，而不是買不買家具的問題。 1Young people liked renting home furniture because_________ A、they have less money.B、they don’t want to buy old furniture.C、the new furniture is of good quality.D、they don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture.參考答案:D解析: 【答案】D【解析】從文中，可以看到這一完整而明確的信息。 三、詞匯與語法1 It’s a good idea. But who’s going to_________ the plan? I think John and Peter will. A、carry outB、get throughC、take inD、set aside參考答案:A解析: 考點：動詞短語。carry out “執(zhí)行，實行”；get through “完成，度過，通過”；take in “吸收，領(lǐng)會”； set aside “不理會，擱置”。句意：這是一個好主意，但誰去執(zhí)行這個計劃呢？1He is not seriously ill, but only a ______ headache. A、obviousB、delicateC、slightD、temporary參考答案:C解析: 考點：名詞詞義辨析。slight “輕微的”，符合句意。obvious “明顯的”；delicate “精致的”；temporary “暫時的”。句意：他病得并不嚴(yán)重，只是輕微的頭痛。1He _______ driving me home, even though I told him I lived nearby. A、insisted onB、insisted atC、insisted thatD、insisted in參考答案:A解析: 考點：動詞短語。insist on doing sth. “執(zhí)意做某事”。句意：盡管我告訴他我住在附近，但是他堅持開車送我回家。1When Lily came home at 5 . yesterday, her mother _____dinner in the kitchen. A、cookedB、was cookingC、cooksD、has cooked參考答案:B解析: 考點:動詞時態(tài)。when引導(dǎo)的時間狀語從句與主句的動作同時發(fā)生。如果從句謂語用過去時，主句謂語動詞就用過去進(jìn)行時。句意：Lily昨天下午五點回家時，媽媽正在廚房里做晚飯。 Do you want to wait? Five days ________ too long for me to wait. A、wasB、wereC、isD、are參考答案:C解析: 考點：主謂一致。數(shù)詞+名詞（表示時間、長短、重量或金錢等）當(dāng)作單一的數(shù)量時，謂語動詞為單數(shù)。四、完型填空More and more teachers and parents have noticed another kind of pollution, which came from the printed papers sold on streets.These printed things look like newspaper but have hardly anything to do with them. You can only find reading materials badly ___21___ there. Some are too strange for anyone to believe, ___22___ are frightening stories of something even worse. However, many of the young students are getting absorbed in such poisonous reading, which costs them what they should pay for their breakfast and bring them nightmares and immoral ideas in return. Homework is left undone, daily games lost.These sellers shout on streets selling their papers well. The writers, publishers and printers, ___23___ they are, we never know, are making their silent money. The sheep skinned wolf’s stories seem to have been forgotten once again.Why not forbid this kind of things at sc