Ⅶ阅读理解。(共15小题，每小题2分，计30分)

阅读A、B、C三篇材料,然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

“Homestay is a form of study abroad program. It allows the visitor to rent a room from a local(当地的) family to better understand the local lifestyle. It also helps to improve the visitor’s language ability,” said a teacher during a school meeting last term.” Students who wish to learn more about foreign cultures or to get foreign experience should join this kind of holiday. I am sure you won’t be disappointed(失望的).”

After this special meeting, I always thought about this kind of holiday. Last month, I had a chance at last to go on such a holiday with some of my schoolmates and we went to London, a place where I had wanted to go since years ago.

As we were still young, we had a group leader who planned things for us and looked after us. After we got to London, we went  to stay with different families. I was lucky that my host family(寄宿家庭) was a white couple who had a daughter about my age. They treated me as a daughter of their family during my stay there. They were interested in me and I learnt a lot of things from them, too.

The holiday was filled with activities every day. After breakfast, a local teacher would come to take us in his car. Then we would have classes or go on a sight-seeing trip to different places of interest like the Big Ben, the London Bridge, and the Buckingham Palace. We would go back to our own homes after the activities.

The holiday was a valuable experience for me. I enjoyed every minute of it. Yet, time really flew fast. Three weeks later, we  had to leave  “home” for Hong Kong.

56. In the “homestay” program, a visitor can _____.

A. learn more about holidays      B. understand his culture better

C. improve the language ability    D. take part in foreign meetings

57. The writer had wanted to visit London since _______.

A. last month   B. years ago   C. the special meeting   D. her stay abroad

58. The group leader should ______.

A. make plans for the family      B. take care of the students

C. stay with different families     D. rent rooms to the students

59. The writer’s host family ______.

A. was very kind to her          B. went sight-seeing with her

C. had two white daughters       D. was interested in her activities

60. From the passage, we know that the writer ______ in London.

A. wished to stay a little longer

B. spent three weeks in her home

C. had classes in mnay interesting places

D. helped the teacher take the students in a car

B

Table of hotels from the Tour Guide(指南) for the city of Mystic and Mystic nearby.

61. There are ____ hotels with indoor swimming pools.

A. two         B. four         C. six           D. eight

62. To get the free Internet, you’d better choose______.

A. Sleep Hotel   B. Groton Hotel  C. Quality Hotel  D. Hampton Hotel

63. You can _____ if you live in Rodway Hotel for holidays.

A. swim indoors  B. play tennis     C. ride bikes    D. do running

64. The cheapest hotel with a resturant is ______.

A. Howard Hotel  B. Rodway Hotel  C. Holiday Hotel D. Comfort Hotel

65. We can find out that ____ from the table above.

A. the largest hotel has 136 rooms

B. five hotels have meeting rooms

C. people can’t smoke in Sleep Hotel

D. kids needn’t pay for meals in Holiday Hotel

C

It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.

Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and mathematics need not be taught in detail(详细地), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make hime a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most improtant or the main reason.

66. People with little education usually ____.

A. spend a long time in school         B. have a good chance to get a job

C. spend the best years to choose jobs   D. have fewer chances to get a good job

67. The earliest education was probably to ______.

A. make a man lead a better life        B. teach a man to write and think

C. make people get a way of living      D. teach people to read good books