【正文】 fell into the water because he skated fast. 20. Two workers helped Paul. 答案：AAABAPassage 5 Pubs are supposed to be the Englishman39。s favorite meeting place, where he can get together with a few friends over a pint of beer and talk about football, or horse racing, or business. You may notice that the pub is the place for men, but not for women. Even now it is still not quite respectable for a woman to go into a pub alone。 she must have a man to escort(護(hù)衛(wèi)) and protect her. Perhaps that is partly why pubs depress me they are intended mainly to provide for male interests, which are often pretty narrow. I think this maledominated atmosphere also reminds me of my life back at school, or in the army, neither of which is an experience I much want to relive. However, I39。m obviously in the minority. Most Englishmen have their local pubs, where they can escape from the pressures of family life or work, and if they are lucky, tell their troubles to a pretty barmaid. Indeed, many men dream of retiring from their 9 5 jobs and buying a little country pub, where they imagine they39。ll be the host of a sevennightaweek party. This dream usually dies when cleaning up spilled beer at one o39。clock in the morning. Still, there39。s pub for every type of man, from the city sophisticate to the rural primitive, and a man for every type of pub. And I must admit that, for someone who doesn39。t like them, I spent a lot of time in pubs of various kinds.21. Englishmen go to the pubs because they go to meet and talk with their friends over some beer. 22. The speaker doesn39。t like the maledominated atmosphere about the pubs. 23. Many men are dreaming of retiring from their present jobs and get a little pub. 24. The speaker never goes to pubs with his female friends. 25. Pubs are the only places where Englishmen can plain about their pressures of life and work. 答案：AAABBPassage 6In the world, soccer or football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years. To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called Dream World Cups in Japan. The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer under a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags of all the countries that will take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama. Some football teams will have games there. Are you a football fan？The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football. Teenagers like playing and watching football. Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favorite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to show their love for the World Cup as children in Japan. 26. The World Cup is held every four years. 27. From the passage, children drew flags of all countries in the picture . 28. In “Dream World Cup”, the purpose of the children39。s drawing the flags is to show their good wishes for the football teams. 29. Many teenagers own the pictures of some football stars, because they are football fans. 30. The best title for the passage is 39。FIFA World Cup is more and more popular among teenagers39。. 答案：ABAAAPassage 7 The Great Wall of China winds across the country like a giant stone snake. It is 1,500 miles long. The wall crosses mountains and rivers. It reaches from the ocean on the east to the desert on the west. The Chinese began their wall more than 2,000 years ago. They worked on it for a hundred year. The Chinese wanted to keep out their enemies. At the bottom，the wall is 25 feet wide. At the top，it is about 15 feet wide. The sides of the wall are made of stones and bricks (磚)，while the inside is filled with earth. Parts of the wall rise as high as a threestory building. Placed 100 yards apart are tall towers. Lookouts (看守員) could stand in the towers to watch for enemies approaching (接近) . The road on top of the wall is wide enough for two wagons (四輪馬車) to pass. If we were to build such a wall now，we could use modern machines. But the Chinese had to build the wall by hand. If the wall were in the USA，it would reach from the state of New York to Nebraska. The Great Wall of China is the longest wall ever built. 31. The Great Wall of China is 1,500 miles long . 32. The story does not say so, but it makes you think that the Great Wall has a gate every 100 yards. 33. The inside of The Great Wall is filled with brick. 34. The Great Wall of China was built by hand. 35. On the whole，this story is about The Great Wall of China. 答案：ABBAAPassage 8 Once an old man was walking in a street with his horse. It was raining hard. The old man was cold because he was walking in the rain. He wanted to stay in a restaurant. It was a quarter past three in the afternoon. The old man got to a small restaurant. There were a lot of people in it. The old man couldn39。t e near the fire. He thought and thought. At last he said to the waiters, Take some fish to my horse. The waiter and the people were very surprised. The waiter said, A horse doesn39。t eat fish. The old man told the waiter, This horse is very interesting. It can sing, dance and does all kinds of things. It can eat fish, too, So the waiter brought the horse some fish. All the people in the restaurant ran out to see the horse eat fish except the old man. Now the old man sat beside the fire. After a while the waiter came back and said. Your horse didn39。t eat any fish. The old man said, All right, take the fish back and put it on the table. I39。ll eat it.36. The old man felt very cold becaus