【正文】 undred adventures. Hercules served a king. The king was afraid of him. So again and again he sent him on difficult tasks. One morning the king sent for him and told him to fetch three golden apples for him from the garden of the Singing Maidens(歌女 ). But no one knew where the garden was. So Hercules went away. He walked the whole day and the next day and the next. He walked for months before he saw mountains far in the distance one fine morning. One of the mountains was in the shape of a man， with long， long legs and arms and huge shoulders and a huge head. He was holding up the sky. Hercules knew it was Atlas，the Mountain God： So he asked him for help. Atlas answered， My head and arms and shoulders all ache. Could you hold up the sky while I fetch the golden apples for you? Hercules climbed the mountain and shouldered the sky. Soon the sky grew very heavy. When finally Atlas came back with three golden apples， he said, Well, you are going to carry the mountain for ever. I39。t fight him because of the sky on his back. So he shouted： Just one minute39。s garden. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned 18 Hercules was given many difficult tasks because the king wanted to get rid of him. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned 19 Atlas was the god who held up the sky. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned 20 Atlas ran faster than Hercules. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned 21 Atlas got the golden apples for Hercules because he wanted to be the king himself. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned 22 Hercules finally managed to get the apples by defeating Atlas. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned 第 3 部分：概括大意與完成句子 （ 第 23— 30題，每題 l分，共 8分 ） 閱讀下面這篇短文，短文后有 2項測試任務(wù)： (1)第 23～ 26題要求從所給的 6個選 項中為第 2～ 5段每段選擇 1 個正確的小標(biāo)題； (2)第 27～ 30 題要求從所給的 6個選項 中選擇 4個正確選項，分別完成每個句子。 Hints for Reading Practice 1. Most of US can find l 5 minutes or half an hour each day for some regular activity. For example， one famous surgeon always spent l 5 minutes reading something before he went to sleep each day. Whether he went to bed at l0 P. m. or 2： 30 a. m. made no difference. 2. Speed Reading courses teach students how to read more quickly. In such courses，teachers often ask students to find out how many words a minute they are reading. You can do this too： look at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes and write down the page number you have reached. 3. Obviously， you should not increase your reading speed if you do not understand what you are reading. If you find something you don39。t worry about whether you understand or not. If you keep doing this lightning speed reading for a period of time, you will usually find that your normal speed has increased. 5. Most paragraphs in an article have a topic sentence that expresses the central idea. The opening paragraph often suggests the general direction and content of the article， while paragraphs that follow expand or support the first. The closing paragraph often gives a summary of the most important points of the article. 8 23 Paragraph 2 24 Paragraph 3 25 Paragraph 4 26 Paragraph 5 A The anization of An Article B What39。請仔細(xì)閱讀短文 并根據(jù)短文回答其后面的問題，從 4個選項中選擇 l個最佳 答案涂在答題卡相應(yīng)的位置 上。s mind with facts in a classroom； education also means character training. One of the best ways of training character is by means of games，9 especially team games， where the boy has to learn to work with others for his team，instead of working selfishly(自私地 )for himself alone. The school therefore arranges games and matches for its pupils. Football is a good team game， it is good exercise for the body， it needs skill and a quick brain， it is popular and it is cheap. As a result， it is the school39。s attitude towards the football game in England? A Critical. B Positive. C Negative. D Doubtful. 第二篇 The English Weather Other countries have a climate： in England we have weather. This statement，often made by Englishmen to describe the strange weather conditions of their country，is both revealing and true. It is revealing because in it we see the Englishman insisting once again that what happens in England is not the same as what happens elsewhere. Its truth can be proved by any foreigner who stays in the country for longer than a few days. In no country other than England， it has been said， can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day! Day may break as a warm spring morning an hour or 10 so later black clouds may have appeared from nowhere and the rain may be pouring down。s character. It tends to make him cautious(小心謹(jǐn)慎的 )， for example. The foreigner may laugh when he sees the Englishman setting forth on a brilliantly sunny morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella， but he may well regret his laughter later in the day! And， of course， the weather39。 in Eng1and we have weather. This statement suggests that A other countries do not have fine weather. B you cannot experience four seasons in a year in England. C the weather in England often changes and is therefore unique. D the weather in England never changes. 37 A special feature of the weather in England is that A you can experience four seasons every day throughout the year. B it does not have four seasons as other countries do. C winter there is the coldest in the world. D you may experience different types of weather in a single day. 38 What makes the Englishman cautious， according to the passage? A The foreigner39。s pany is considered a great virtue in Japan. A man is often prepared to put his firm39。 B The Japanese worker is very loyal to his panys future is guaranteed through hard work. D Devotion to one3