考试类别:成人高考(高起点) 科目:高中起点-英语 题型:阅读理解
1、阅读理解。阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
Robert Kohout,39,was woking outside his home last October when he heard a frightening noise. He turned round and waw Walter Graham’s car sinking into 8 feet of water of the inground swimming pool a little distance away from his yard.
Kohourt immediately called to Graham’s wife, Evelyn,to telephone 911. Then he ran back to his house to get Terence Reif and Glenn Fajardo to help, who were at work inside the house. “There was no time for second thoughts,” said Reif, a farmer’s son. “The only thing to do was to get in the pool.”
The car doors were locked. Graham,73,was unconscious(失去知觉),and his Mercury was rapidly filling with water. Reif struggled to break the driver’s side window with a hammer but had trouble getting it done underwater.
Finally―some four minutes after the car had fallen into the pool―the glass was broken. By then, Graham was floating at the top of the flooded passenger compartment(车厢).
The three men pulled Graham out through the broken glass. He wasn’t breathing and his heart stopped beating, so they performed mouth-tomouth resuscitation. The rescue(急救)team arrived in no time. Doctors supplied him with advanced life support on the way to the hospital.
“These people were getting to Graham through the glass,” said Dr Jeff Messinger. “All three acted without regard for their own safety.” Added Evelyn Graham, “They were truly angels(天使)watching over us.”
(1)．Who may Terence Reif and Glenn Fajardo most probably be?
(A) Workmen. (B) Policemen. (C) Walter’s wife and son. (D) Robert’s wife and son.
(2)．Immediately after Rolbert found the car sinking into the pool, he _____.
(A) jumped into the pool
(B) shouted to let Evelyn call the rescue team
(C) ran to the nearest telephone
(D) rushed into Graham’s house to find his wife
(3)．What does the word resuscitation refer to in the story?
(A) A way of saving people who have stopped breathing.
(B) A way of helping people who have heart trouble.
(C) A way of saving people who have got drunk.
(D) A way of helping people who need water.
(4)．Which of the following would be the best title for this story?
(A) THE UNDERWATER CAR. (B) ANGELS AROUND US.
(C) RESCUE TEAM IN TIME. (D) SAFETY FIRST.
2、阅读理解。阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
John: How do you feel about flying?
Mary: I don’t mind flying. What I don’t like is not being able to keep an eye on my luggage (行李). Whenever the man at
the airport takes my luggage, I never expect to see it again.
John: There is always a chance it will fly to Paris while you fly to Rome. Has anything like that ever happened to you?
Mary: No, but it has happened to other people. Just the other day I heard about an old woman who lost her luggage. It was
a true story. She was taking a five-day journey around Europe.
John: Where did her luggage get lost?
Mary: I don’t think she ever found out. When she arrived in Europe, her luggage wasn’t there. She had to travel through
four countries in the same clothes.
John: I suppose she bought another toothbrush, at least. Could she buy another dress?
Mary: No. She had spent all her money on the tickets for the journey. Besides, she never had time to shop. Every time they
reached another airport, she had to spend her time in the luggage room, looking for her luggage.
John: What a way to spend her holidays! But that’s not as had as a story I heard. There was a family of four on a big
ship. They were there to say goodbye to a friend of theirs.
Mary: I suppose the ship left before the family got off.
John: That’s right. They said that they didn’t hear any warning bells. They didn’t know the ship had left until they
finally decided it was time to get off. By then the ship was almost out to sea. Of course they wouldn’t make
the captain turn around to take them back.
Mary: And of course they didn’t have any luggage with then.
John: It was worse than that. All four of them had to stay in one small cabin for the whole week. They had a baby and a
small child. The child came down with measles (麻疹) the next day.
Mary: So they couldn’t leave their small cabin.
John: They couldn’t leave it, and nobody else could come near them. I suppose somebody had left food at their door.
Mary: What terrible days they had!
(1)．When she travels by plane, Mary worries much that ______.
(A) people at the airport will not take care of her
(B) she won’t know where to get her luggage
(C) she will possibly fly to Paris rather than Rome
(D) her luggage may be taken to a wrong airport
(2)．What became the most important thing for the old woman traveling around Europe?
(A) Seeing place of interest. (B) Finding time to go shopping.
(C) Looking for her luggage. (D) Getting different clothes to wear.
(3)．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
(A) The baby got sick on the second day.
(B) the family was too late to leave the ship.
(C) the ship left the port without any warning.
(D) The captain ordered the ship back to the port.
(4)．From the story we know that a cabin is ______ .
(A) one end of the ship (B) a long journey by ship
(C) a small room on a ship (D) a sea-going passenger ship
3、阅读理解。阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
When my son Ryan saw a T-shirt on sale for 5 dollars marked down from 8,he told me, “We’ll save 3 dollars if we buy it now.”
He looked at me in surprise when I answered, “We’ll save 5 dollars if we don’t buy it at all.”
Today’s children get lots of messages and values from television and from friends. They are encouraged to buy things they don’t need. What they need is an understanding of the value of the dollar.
How do children learn the important facts of life? Most schools do not teach them. It is up to parents to help their children.
To learn about money children need to have some. Early on, parents often handed out money on an as-needed basis(基础). But experts say paying certaing amount(数量) of money each week is the best way to teach children the meaning of money, how to use it and how to plan.
Your child is ready for some money each week around age 5 or 6,when he gets to know the relationship between money and shopping and asks you to buy him things.
But how much should the parents give? Some experts suggest giving one dollar for each year of age, but Dr Olivia Mellan disagrees：“I think 5 dollars a week is too much for a 5-year-old,and 15 dollars is probably not enough for a 15-year-old.”what’s right for your child depends on three things: the child’s level of development, how much you can give, and what you expect him to pay for.
No matter how much you give them, children will soon feel they need more. But Sharon M. Danes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, insists that children don’t need a raise each year. “There’s no lesson to be learned when children expect an increase just because they are a year older,” she says. “what they should learn is how to be good money earners(挣钱人),savers and spenders.”
(1)．In “an understanding of the value of the dollar”, the word dollar is best explained as _______.
(A) values from TV and friends (B) what one saves
(C) the price of a T-shirt (D) money in general
(2)．What should parents do to help their children understand facts of life such as managing money?
(A) Help the children plan their use of money.
(B) Ask the children to hand out money carefully.
(C) give the children money on a monthly basis.
(D) Permit the children to ask for more when needed.
(3)．Why does Dr Olivia Mellan have a different idea about the amount of money given to children?
(A) She holds that one dollar for each year of age is far from enough.
(B) She believes that children should be given more than they need.
(C) She feels that different age groups need different things.
(D) She thinks that age difference is not the whole thing.
(4)．According to Professor Danes, parents should _______.
(A) give 5 dollars to children more that 15 years old
(B) allow a yearly increase as their children grow older
(C) refuse to pay for certain things their children want to have
(D) teach their children how to make money and use it wisely
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