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Period 2 Reading Comprehension Ⅰ. film over than calls Ⅱ. ; your; spare; time ; us; to; finish ; anything; else/other;things ; that ; a; lovely; girl; that; so; lovely; a; girl; that Ⅲ.1. B [主旨大意題。通讀全文,可知文章主要介紹了玉米的由來,故選 B項作文章的標題最好。 ] 2. A [細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的 “Before 1492 , no one living in Europe ate corn cakes or corn bread. They didn’t know there was corn in the world.” 可知應(yīng)選 A。 ] 3. D [細節(jié)理解題。通讀第三段,可知當(dāng)時來美洲定居的英國人發(fā)現(xiàn)了一種成熟快以及一種成熟慢的玉米,故選 D。 ] 4. D [推理判斷題。通讀最后一段,不 難推斷出玉米是一種很有用的農(nóng)作物。 ] Ⅳ. I went to see thea film after supper. On my way to the cinema, I met an English woman, who ∧had lost her way. I gave up the chance ∧to see the film and took her to her hotel. While gogoing there, I told her about great changes that had been \ taken place here in the past few years and she had \ told me something about her country. Although I missed the film, but \ I still felt very happy, for I had not only helped her out of trouble but practiced my spoken English. If I had not worked hard onat English, I would not have been able to help himher.