【正文】 . 4．The man who buried his money in a parkA．thought his money was safer there than in a bank. B．travelled on the sea for a year. C．got his life savings back again. D．stayed away longer than he expected. 5 . From these stories we understand thatA．we cannot trust banks. B．we should not trust anyone. C．a(chǎn) waterproof bag is not proof against worms and insects. D．insects eat anything.答案：ABBAC(9)People bury treasure to stop other people from taking it. They choose a quiet place, dig a deep hole and bury the treasure in it. Then they make a map of where the treasure is or write down other clues（線索）that will help them or someone else to find it again. In Britain a few years ago。t say this muchC．say this but may not think soD．only think this4．What problems does sport have?A．Some women athletes are actually men. B．Some women athletes are give hormone injections. C．Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. D．It is difficult to check whether women athletes are really women. 5．In this passage the author implies that ______A．women are weaker than wen , but fasterB．women are slower than men, but strongerC．men are not always stronger and faster than womenD．men are faster and stronger than womens time are always slower than men39。t win them all.”1．This passage deals with two sides of failure. In paragraph 1, the author talks mainly about ______ . A．the value of failureB．how people would failC．famous failuresD．the cause of failure2．The underlined phrase“made it”means ______ . A．succeededB．failedC．gaveD．got3．The lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce seems ______ . A．productiveB．straight forwardC．sorrowfulD．deep4．The author tells you to do all things except ______ . A．The think about the cause of your failureB．to check out whether your goals are right for youC．to consider failure as a part or lifeD．to bear in mind that you will never fail in your life5．Which of the following is NOT true?A．Bruce and Edison were successful examples. B．Failure may be regarded as a way toward success. C．Edison learned a lot from the lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce. D．One may often raise a question whether his goals are worth attempting.答案：AADDC(8)In sport the sexes（性別）are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called the weaker sex, or, if men want to please them, the fair sex. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men . A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68．Are women39。t be doing anyway. The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it39。(7)In one way of thinking, failure is a part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The “spider story” is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web（蜘蛛織網(wǎng)）. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times without success. On the seventh time he made it and went on to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English… Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?Second, is the goal（目標(biāo)）you39。t have any machines to help them. So they heated the rock with fire and then threw cold water over it. When the rock cracked（裂）, they dug it out. Roman soldiers and slaves built the roads with their hands and simple tools, but the roads were so well built that they were used for hundreds of years. 1．The story tells us ______ . A．building roads without modern machines was Roman soldiers’ only jobB．it was no easy job for the Romans to build their roadsC．people in advanced countries still use the old Roman way to build their roads todayD．most people in the African countries still use the old Roman way to dig their tunnels through the mountains2．To build mountain roads, the old Romans had to ______ . A．explode the rock before they started to digB．crack the rock with fire and cold waterC．dig through the hard rock with their handsD．invent some machines to help them with the work3．On the whole, the story is about ______ . A．how to build up our modern roads todayB．Roman tools in building a wide straight roadC．the Romans’ roads built two thousand years agoD．the reason why the Romans had to build their roads4．Why did the Romans build so many roads at that time? It was because ______ . A．their slaves and soldiers had to do something, or, they would have nothing to doB．they dared not sail in the ocean and the roads were their only choiceC．they needed land trade roads and the roads to move their grand armies as quickly as possibleD．the old Romans wanted to show how clever they were in building the roads5．According to the passage, which of the following four choices is correct?A．The old Romans found soft soil did not make a solid base for the road.B．The Romans built roads only on flat（平）landC．Flat stones were mostly used in the roads of AsiaD．The old Romans used to make use of the soft soil for the base of their roads in North Africa答案：BBACD(5)Perhaps the most famous theory, the study of body movement, was suggested by Professor Ray Birdwhistell. He believes that physical appearance is often culturally（文化的）programmed. In other words, we learn our looks we are not born with them. A baby has generally unformed face features（特征）. A baby, according to Bird whistle, learns where to set the eyebrows（眉毛）by looking at thos