B

What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself ? Please read the following passage.

Escaping a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save yourself. It is important to know the ways you can use and to show them to everyone in the family, such as stairways (楼梯) and fire escapes, but not lifts.

From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible, learn the best way of leaving through windows with the least chance of serious injury (伤害).

The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average person, hanging by the finger-tips (手指尖) will have a drop of about six feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building.

Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may have leaked (泄露) into the room.

On a second or t hird floor, the best windows for escape are those which open onto a roof (屋顶).From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement (水泥) might end in injury. Bushes(灌木) and grass can help to break a fall.

36. It is important to                  .

A. know the ways to escape a fire           B. put out a fire in a burning house

C. jump out of a burning house             D. keep the door closed

37. It is possible to escape through the windows                .

A. if you are strong enough               B. if there are some bushes on the ground

C. if you live on a lower floor             D. if you have a long rope

38. Which of the following ways of escaping is not right?

A. You can escape through stairways

B. use a lift to come down at once

C. Escape through the windows which open onto a roof

D. You can choose fine escapes

39. Keep your head low at the window so that      if the building is on fire

A. you can get fresh air                    B. you can call for help

C. you can easily jump off                  D. you can be seen first

40. The best title for the passage is         .

A. Escaping through the windows      B. Save Yourself from A Burning House

C. Knowledge on fire                D. Waiting for Help

C

Some students are talking about open-book exam:

May: We students have so many burdens (负担) . Maybe examination is the greatest one. Open-book exams can make our burdens lighter, I think. At least it means that we need not learn so many things by he art any more.

Hill: Open-book exams does not mean students do not need textbooks any more. Instead, it shows how much students really understand about the book. It may mean we need spend even more time learning history and politics because the open-book exam means going deeply into the textbooks.

Sun: We need a long time learning for history and politics exams because there are so many things to remember. And sometimes the results are not very good, even if we have spent a long time studying. If we are able to take books into our exams, we will save time and we won’t have so many headaches.

Tang (teacher): Open-book tests are harder for students because the tests make them feel they do not need to understand the textbooks any longer. They rely on (依靠) the books and spend most of their time looking for answers during exams. Sometimes they might not even be able to finish their tests because they have wasted too much looking for answers.

41. Who think open-book exam is easier for students?

A. May and Sun   B. May and Tang    C. Sun and Hill   D. Tang and Hill

42. Today Students _______________.

A. like to learn history and politics by heart.

B. have so many burdens.

C. are healthy enough to remember all the things.

D. are not very clever, so they need open-book exams

43. What does Tang think makes some students not be able to finish their tests in time?

A. They can’t do it at all.

B. The time for tests is too short.

C. They waste time learning the answers by heart.

D. They don’t understand the textbooks very well.

44. Hill thinks that open-book exam means “__________________”

A. students do not need to read textbooks any more

B. students will save time and they won’t have so many headaches.

C. ho w much students really understand about book.

D. students need not learn so many things by heart any more

45.  According to the text, which do you think is NOT true?

A. You can take your textbook with you in an open-book exam

B. You need to learn more things in the history and politics books by heart in an open-book exam

C. The open-book exam may mean going deeply into the textbook.

D. It has two sides to have an open-book exam ----- good and bad.