Ⅵ. 阅读理解 阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的选项中，选出最佳答案或作出正误判断。A篇为判断正(A)误(B)题，B、C篇为选择题。(共15小题，每小题1分，共15分)

A

Basketball players are usually very tall, because they need to put the ball into the basket. Other sports players may be shorter than them. Short people often have better balance than tall people, so they don’t fall over(摔倒) very often. In some sports the players must have good balance, for example, table tennis, they don’t need to have long legs to run fast ! Some of the fast runners in the world are not very tall. Some people are tall and some are short. The tallest man in the world is 2.41 meters tall. Today young people in many countries grow taller than their parents. This is because they eat better than their parents. Good food can help children grow.

根据短文内容，判断下列句子是否正确，对的写A，错的写B。

46.Other sports players must be shorter than basketball players.

47.Table tennis players must have good balance.

48.The fast runners in the world are very tall.

49.The tallest man in the world is a basketball player.

50.Good food makes young people taller than their parents.

B

Name Personal Information

Ludwig von

Beethoven Born in 1770 in Germany

A musician

Died in 1827

Florence

Nightingale Born in Italy on May 12, 1820

An English nurse

Died in 1910

Bill Gates Born in 1955 in the USA

Wrote Business @ the speed of Thought

Owns(拥有) Microsoft

Thomas Edison Born in 1847 in the USA

Made over 1,000 inventions(发明)

Died in 1931

Yao Ming Born on September 12, 1980 in Shanghai, China

A basketball player

Playing for the Houston Rockets, USA

51. Florence Nightingale is from __________.

A. Canada B. the USA C. Italy D. China

52. The _________ was born in 1770.

A. musician B. nurse C. businessman D. scientist

53. Business @ the speed of Thought is the name of a ________.

A. song B. book C. school D. film

54. Thomas Edison died in ________.

A. 1910 B. 1827 C. 1847 D. 1931

55. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Yao Ming is playing basketball for Los Angeles Lakers in America.

B. Beethoven made over 1,000 inventions.

C. Edison was born in 1820.

D. Bill Gates is the writer of Business @ the speed of Thought.

C

Mr. Jenkins is fifty years old. He’s taught math in a middle school for twenty-six years. He works hard and always come to his office on time. He hopes his students to be honest and is strict with them. Some of his students become famous persons, but they still remember him and often write to him. Of course the old man is proud of(自豪)it. This term he began to teach Grade One. Some of the new students were told about him，but the others didn’t know him well. He told them how to be an honest person. He gave them several examples and said，“I hate telling a lie(撒谎)most.”Before class was over，he told all his students to finish Exercise 8 in Unit 1.The next morning，as soon as he came in the classroom，he asked，“Who’s finished Exercise 8? ”A few students put up their hands. He shook his head and said. “Open your workbooks and see if there’s Exercise 8 in Unit 1 or not.”The students had a look at their books and their faces turned red at once.

56. Mr. Jenkins began to work in the school when he was ________.

A.twenty-two B.twenty-three C.twenty-four D.twenty-five

57. What is Mr. Jenkins proud of?

A. All his students have become honest. B. All his students often write to him.

C. He’s been a teacher for twenty-six years.

D. Some of his students become famous and often write to him.

58. Which sentence below is Not True?

A. This term Mr. Jenkins began to teach Grade One.

B. All the new students knew him well.

C. He told the students he hated telling a lie most.

D. Not all the students put up their hands.

59. Mr. Jenkins told his students to finish Exercise 8 in Unit 1 because ________.

A. it was very interesting B. it was very important

C. he wanted to give them an example D. he wanted to know if they were honest

60. The students’ faces turned red because ________.

A. they made Mr. Jenkins angry B. they told a lie(撒谎)in class

C. they didn’t finish the exercise D. they felt very excited