IV．阅读理解（2）

（六）

While travelingin a foreign country, Mr. Jackson Frank was in need of money. He wrote to his brother at home, “Send me $500 by telegram to the Fisher Bank.”

After a week he began visiting the bank. He showed his passport. “Nothing has come for you”, he was told. This went on for two weeks and Mr. Frank got very worried.

In the fourth week Mr. Frank was sent to prison for failing to pay his hotel bill. He had to stay there for six weeks.

When he came out, he went immediately to the Fisher Bank. There was a new clerk there. “Have you received $500 for me? My name is Jackson Frank.”he asked.

The clerk checked his books. “Oh, yes. It came two months ago.”He said and showed Mr. Frank the order.

“But my name is Jackson Frank, not Frank Jackson.”

“That’s all right. It was in our books under the letter J.”The clerk laughed.

“A human mistake. We’re all human beings. And so we all make mistakes.”

Mr. Frank was silent. Then he said, “A human mistake is what you call it? I think some humans need kicking.”

1.From the beginning of the story we learn that Mr. Frank ________.

A.loved to travel

B.had a rich brother

C.did not have enough money with him

D.had not been to that place before

2. About how many weeks did it usually take for a letter to got to Frank’s hometown from where he was?

A. One.  B. Two.  C. Six.  D. Eight.

3. Mr. Frank was put in prison because he________.

A. kept asking the bank for money

B. did not pay the hotel in time

C. kicked some people in his anger

D. did not have his passport with him

4. Why did it take so long for Mr. Frank to get the money?

A.It was sent from a far away place.

B.The order was placed under the wrong letter.

C.The bank clerk was new and inexperienced.

D.It took his brother some time to send it.

5. At the end of the story Mr. Frank ______.

A. was surprised  B. beat the bank clerk

C. was angry  D. joked about the mistake

（七）

The human body naturally prevents attempt (企图) to lose or gain weight. Thus the best way to lower your weight is to do some exercise daily. Although scientists don’t agree exactlyhow this works to lower the “setpoint”, they do know that exercise helps your body work withyou and not against you in at least the following ways:

1. Exercise burns calories (卡路里)- if you walk two miles every day, you use an extra 1400 calories a week—and lose about a pound in two weeks.

2. Exercise helps to burn fat and build muscle, since muscle requires more calories than fatdoes, the more muscle you have, the faster you will burn calories.

3. Finally exercise speeds up your metabolism (新陈代谢), not just while you’re exercising, but for several hours after exercise ends.

A program of light-to-moderate exercise done for only a half-hour a day is enough to keep your “setpoint” lowered, and thus helps you lose weight and keep it off. If you need to lose more than five pounds, combine regular exercise with a moderate reduction in calories until you,reach your goal (目标).

1. Scientists don’t______.

A. believe in exercise at all

B. agree exercise helps to lower people’s weight

C. think exercise helps people’s bodies work against them

D. think exercise helps people’s bodies work with them

2. Exercise helps you_______.

A. save calories and gain weight

B. save calories but lose weight

C. burn calories and lose weight

D. burn calories but gain weight

3. When you walk_______.

A. slowly, the fat in your body increases

B. fast, the fat in your body reduces

C. faster, you burn less calories

D. less, you build more muscles

4. Which of the following is not true?

A. A man of more muscles burns calories faster.

B. Exercise speeds up your metabolism even after it.

C. An hour and a half’s exercise is not enough to keep your “setpoint” lowered.

D. To lose more than 5 pounds, just doing exercise is not enough.

5. According to the passage, if you need to lose more than five pounds, you should_____.

A. eat less meat

B. eat more vegetables

C.combine regular exercise with a moderate reduction in calories

D. doing exercise every day

（八）

In the summer of 1897 an English doctor,Ronald Ross, worked in a field hospital in India. Ross set out to find the cause of malaria (疟疾). Ross observed that patients in the field hospital who did not have malaria were more likely to develop the deadly disease in the openwards (病房) than in wards with closed windows or screens. Ross suggested a hypothesis (假设): mosquitoes (蚊子-) in the open wards might be spreading the disease from patients with malaria to patients who did not have the disease.

Ross predicted (预言) that if mosquitoes were spreading malaria (hypothesis), then mosquitoes that had bitten malaria patients and sucked up some of their blood should have pickedup the parasite (寄生虫) (prediction), which is always present in the blood of malaria victims (受害人). Ross also predicted that parasites should be alive within the mosquito. Somehow the parasites make their way from the mosquito’s stomach to its saliva (唾液) so that the parasites are transferred (迁移) with the mosquito’s saliva to the next person bitten. So if a person is bitten by a malaria-carrying mosquito, that person will receive some of the parasite in the salivaleft behind by the mosquito.

Ross looked for living malaria parasites in mosquitoes that had bitten malaria patients. Hecarefully dissected (切开) the mosquito’s stomach and found the live parasites.

Ross carried out a control experiment, in which the condition suspected (怀疑) to cause this is compared to the same situation without the suspected condition (a control group).Nothing else is changed in any way. In Ross’s experiment, the suspected condition was mosquitoes feeding on malaria victims. As a control, Ross checked mosquitoes that had not bittensomeone with the disease to see if they also contained (包含) the parasite. Gathering mosquitoes that had not yet fed, he allowed them to feed on malaria-free blood, and then he examinedthem. Their stomachs and saliva lacked (缺乏) the parasite. The control group of mosquitoes did not contain malaria parasite. The experiments proved that Ross’s hypothesis was correct.

Ross’s theory that malaria is transferred by mosquitoes carrying it from one person to anotherwas an important milestone (里程碑) in medicine. Finding the cause of malaria is one of the greatest medical advances of all time.

1. Working in a field hospital, Ross observed were more likely to develop malaria.

A. patients in the field hospital

B. patients who did not have malaria

C. patients in the open wards

D. patients in wards with closed windows and screens

2. Ross’s hypothesis was that.

A. mosquitoes in the open wards might be spreading malaria

B. mosquitoes that had bitten malaria patients should have picked up the parasite

C. parasite is always present in the blood of malaria victims

D. parasite should be alive within mosquitoes that had bitten malaria patients

3. Which of the following is the way of mosquitoes’ spreading malaria?

A. blood of malaria victims→mosquitoes’ stomach→blood of another patient

B. parasite→mosquitoes’ stomach→mosquitoes’ saliva

C. patients with malaria→blood→parasite→blood

D. malaria patients→mosquitoes →person bitten by mosquitoes

4. In Ross’s control experiment.

A. the condition suspected to spread malaria was mosquitoes feeding on malaria patients

B. mosquitoes that hadn’t bitten any malaria victims also contained the parasite

C. mosquitoes were allowed to feed on blood of malaria patients

D. the stomachs and saliva of the control group of mosquitoes did not lack the parasite

5. Which of the following is not true, according to the passage?

A. the parasite is always present in the blood of malaria victims.

B. the parasites can be transferred with the mosquito’s saliva to the next person bitten

C. In the experiment, Ross found no live parasites in the mosquito’s stomach

D.Ross’s theory was an important milestone

（九）

We want our kids (小孩) to use the Internet, and yet we worry. But we can find ways to direct our children away from what’s wrong, towards what’s best.

The most effective (有效地) way to monitor (监控) a kids’online activity is to monitor it. That is, to stand beside the computer from time to time when your child is at it.

Carleton Kendrick suggests that accompanying (陪伴) your child to a website (网站) he often visits is no different from “checking out a playground where your kids go, to see that it’s safe.

In any e-mail program, a look at the senders’ addresses can give you a good idea of yourkids’correspondents (通信者).

America Online allows parents to limit incoming e-mails to a finite (限定的) list of correspondents. Some parents also type their kids’ names into a search engine to discover whatthey’re saying on websites or message boards.

Understand that as kids get older and demand more privacy (私密), some basic know-how comes into play. America Online has been particularly effective in helping parents give theirchildren an online experience, a “kids-only’AOL account (帐户) prevents young users from all but full time-monitored chat (聊天) rooms. Katherine Borsecnik, president at AOL, notes, however, that “if I have a child who’s doing a report on breast (乳房) cancer (癌), I might want to turn off the filters (过滤器)” since kids-only access (路径) would block websites with even straight medical information about breast.

Many parents don’t know that a simple click (点击) on the “history”tab (键) will produce a list of links to every website the computer has visited recently. Bonnie Fell opens all the filesthat have been downloaded (下载) by her two sons at least once a month— “whether the boys are there or not. Although they know it.” As Jim Lynch, who manages message boards for theBoston-based FamilyEducation. com, says, “Parents are the ultimate (最后的) filter.”

1. To stand beside the computer from time to time when your child is at it is.

A. the most effective way to monitor a kid’s online activity

B. the useful way to direct it away from what’s wrong and towards what’s best

C. the good way to protect it on the net

D. checking out a playground where your kids go, to see that it’s safe.

2. To protect their children on the net, parents can.

a. accompany their children to the website they often visit

b. look at the senders’ addresses

c. limit incoming e-mails to a finite list of correspondents

d. type their kids’ names into a search engine to discover something

A. ab B. ac C. abd D. abcd

3. America Online.

A. prevents young users from all but full time-monitored chat rooms

B. blocks websites with even straight medical information

C. produces a list of links to every website the computer has visited recently

D. turn off the filters

4. Which of the following is right?

A. Katherine Borsecnik says parents are the ultimate filter.

B. Carleton Kendrick says accompanying a child to a website is the same as checking out aplayground

C. Jim Lynch says she might want to turn off the filters

D. Bonnie Fell says she opens all the files of her two sons whether they are there or not

5. How does Bonnie Fellmonitor his two sons’online activity?

A. Bonnie Fellwill stand beside theirsons

B. Bonnie Fell opens all the filesthat have been downloaded by her two sons at least once a month

C. Bonnie Fellwill employ a babysitter

D. Bonnie Fellwill ask the sons’teacher to help

（十）

Something interesting happened during the last Christmas shopping hour in London. A poor man, who, through no fault of his own, found himself locked in a big store late on Christmas Eve. No doubt the store was crowded with people buying gifts and the assistants were dead beat and eager to go home. It seemed that all the necessary checks were made before the store was locked, and the assistants went home to enjoy the three-day holiday.

The man was still in the store. When he realized that, he decided to make the best of it. In the store, of course, there was plenty of food, drink and bedding. There must have been radios and television sets, which no one could tell whether the man had ever used. When the store reopened, the man was discovered in bed with a large number of empty bottles beside him. He seemed to have been very happy. Everyone else was enjoying Christmas, so he saw no reason why he should not do the same. Happily enough, he let the police take him away. Perhaps he had had a better Christmas than usual. It was reported that the man would have to stay in prison for seven days. It seemed, however, the judge was not going to do anything for the store, as he said that the store had become better known through the story in the newspapers and on television.

1. The man ________ when he found that he was locked in.

A. did not feel worried   B. was frightened

C. took pity on himself  D. got very angry

2. In the story, dead beat means “________”.

A. hungry  B. late  C. tired out  D. lazy

3. In “…the man decided to make the best of it”, it refers to ______.

A. the situation B. the store

C. the holiday   D. the food

4. The judge did nothing for the store because he thought________.

A. the store had arranged all this for the man

B. the man had stolen nothing valuable from the store

C. the man should have a happy Christmas in the store

D. the man had actuallydone something good for the store

5. Which of thefollowing is true, according to the passage?

A. the man locked himself in the store.

B. the man was angry becausethe police took him away.

C. the shop became better-known after the incident.

D. the man would sue（起诉） the store.

答案

（六）

1-5:CABBC

（七）

1-4:CCBCC

（八）

1-4:CADAC

（九）

1-4:ADADB

（十）

1-4:ACADC

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