Ⅲ.阅读理解(20分)

A

Last Sunday evening, I went to town with my mother. After we bought lots of things, we went out the supermarket and found it was raining hard. But we had no umbrella. Just when we were trying to get into a taxi, a strange old man came up to us. He was carrying a nice umbrella and he said he would give the umbrella to us for one dollar. He said he lost his wallet and needed some money to take a taxi to go back home.

My mother didn’t believe what he said at first, and asked him a lot of questions and then gave him a dollar. But the man didn’t get into a taxi. We followed him and found he went into a club and bought himself a glass of whiskey with the dollar. After he drank it, he put on his hat and took one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one. Soon after that, he sold it again.

(   ) 26.What’s the weather like that day?

A. It was windy.      B. It was sunny.      C. It was rainy.

(   ) 27.In fact, the old man wanted to get money to ______.

A. buy a wallet       B. buy some whiskey  C. buy an umbrella

(   ) 28.The old man got ______ from the writer’s mother.

A. one yuan        B. one dollar        C. two dollars

(   ) 29.From the passage, we can know that the old man was ______.

A. not honest       B. friendly         C. helpful

(   ) 30.The underlined word “strange” means ______ in Chinese.

A. 可怜的          B. 喝醉的        C. 陌生的

B

For many people of Norway(挪威)，skiing(滑雪) is the best way to have fun in winter. Almost everyone can ski. Children learn to ski after they learn to walk. Long long ago in Norway，there were no buses, trains or cars. People had to find a way to walk over the deep snow. Skis were the right answer!

Although they love winter, the people of Norway are also happy to see summer come. They enjoy the out-door activities at any time of the year. In summer they swim and sunbathe near the beach. Some people go hiking and go mountain climbing. Sail-boating is also very popular during the warm sunny summer months.

The Norwegians(挪威人), like people everywhere, find many in-door ways to have a good time. During the long winter they also enjoy movies. They like to read books from the libraries in all seasons. Family life is very important to the people of Norway.

(   ) 31.In winter, ____ is the most popular sport for Norwegians to have a good time.

A. skiing.            B. skating  .        C. swimming

(   ) 32.Long long time ago, Norwegians skied for ________.

A. having fun    B. walking over the deep snow  C. making money

(   ) 33.How many activities can you find in the passage?

A. 6               B. 7               C. 8

(   ) 34.The writer wants to tell us about ______.

A. skiing         B. the life of Norwegians  C. out-door activities

(   ) 35. Which sentence is right?

A. Norwegians like winter, but they don’t like summer.

B. Norwegians don’t think family life is very important.

C. Norwegians also like indoor activities.

C

In the morning , Mr. Smith comes into the garden at the back of his house. He sees too much snow in the garden. Mr. Smith wants to take his car out, so he asks a man to clean the road from his garage to the gate. He says to the man, “Don’t throw any snow on the flowers, and don’t throw any on the wall, and don’t throw any into the street, or the policeman will come.”Then he goes out.

When he comes back, the road is clean. There is no snow on the flowers, on the wall or in the street. But when he opens the garage to get his car out, he sees: there is full of snow, the snow from the road, and his car is under the snow!

根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)：

(  ) 36.Mr. Smith’s garden is behind his house.

(  ) 37.He wants a man to clean the road because he doesn’t like snow at all.

(  ) 38.He doesn’t tell the man where to throw the snow in the garden.

(  ) 39.The man throws the snow into the garage.

(  ) 40.Mr. Smith feels very happy when he opens the garage to get his car out.

D

This is a story about a famous American woman. Her name is Helen Keller. When she was only nineteen months old, she got an illness. It made her blind(瞎)and deaf(聋的)。She couldn’t see or hear anything. So she couldn’t learn to speak. When she was six, a young teacher came and taught her to read and write. Her name was Ann Sullivan.

Later, when she was ten, Miss Sullivan took her to another teacher, Sarah Fuller. Sarah Fuller taught her to speak. Helen put her fingers on Miss Fuller’s face and into her mouth. In this way, she learned to speak. She went to school and became famous because she was one of the first blind and deaf persons to learn to speak. She began to write books and help the blind in many parts of the world. Her hard and her courage(勇气) made people in all countries love her.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

41. Why couldn’t Helen learn to speak?_____________________________

42. When did Helen become blind an deaf?__________________________

43. What made all people love her?_________________________________

44. How many teachers did Helen have? Who were they?

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45将画线部分译成汉语。

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