阅读理解(共26分，每小题2分)
阅读下面的四篇短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
( A)
Happy Days Club
For young people from 13-18 years old.
Every Saturday
8:00a.m. —10:30 a.m.
41 Smith Street
Just ￡2 a week
Games,music,dancing
Lots morePark’s Shop
15 Barrett Road
10 minutes from town
center
Try our famous chocolate,
eggs and sugar hearts
Prices lower than in other
shops
Open Monday—Saturday
9:00 a.m. — 5: p.m.
Painting Competition
For young people 6-14
years old
Paint a picture of a little animal
Send it to Artist Magazine
12 High Street before 15
September
and win a bicycleCity Library
Books, CDs and videos
Over 100 foreign newspapers
and magazines
Entrance free
Monday—Saturday
9:30 a.m. — 6:00 p.m.
New England House.
Museum Street
48. Happy Days Club opens at __________ .
A. 8:00 p.m.
B. 10:30 p.m.
C.9:30 a.m.
D.8:00 a.m.
49. In Parker’s Shop, you can buy __________.
A. pictures
B. chocolate
C. CDS
D. books
50.Where should the picture be sent?
A.12 High Street
B. Museum Street
C. 41 Smith Street
D.15 Barrett Road
(B)
Julius is a 15 year-old Kenyan, with his feet in his country and his eyes on the West. He wears jeans and a baseball cap to school. He loves watching American films on TV. His elder brothers hang out (闲逛)after work in places like the Hard Rock Cafe. Julius’s brother Paul says, ‘The music is cool, it’s not too expensive and it’s the place where I can meet all my friends.’
Julius is lucky because his parents have enough money to send him to school. Many children in Kenya do not go to school because their parents are too poor to pay for schooling.
Kenya, like many countries in East Africa, has a lot of problems. There is very little industry and farmers do not receive high prices for their crops. Half the people in the capital Nairobi live in slums (贫民区) where whole families crowd into a single-roomed hut. In the north of the country the situation is worse. The rains have failed for several years and the people have not enough food.
It is a young country. Almost half people are aged under 15. Many people there have been hit hard by AIDS. Because the country is poor, it cannot pay for the expensive medicine that can control AIDS.
Julius is worried about his future. ‘I don’t know what I will do when I leave school. There are very few jobs for young people.’ He would like to work with computers on the Internet, maybe start up an Internet cafe. However, there are several problems with this. The computers are very expensive. Next the electricity supply does not run all day every day. Finally, the telephone connections are not very good, and sometimes Net signals are lost.
51. Which of the following is true?
A. All children in Kenya go to school
B. Many children’s parents are as rich as Julius’s.
C. Schools are free in Kenya.
D.Julius’s parents can pay for his schooling.
52. Why have many people got AIDS in Kenya according to the passage?
A. Because there is little industry.
B. Because whole families live in a small hut.
C. Because half people are aged under 15.
D. The country is too poor to control the disease.
53. How many problems does Julius need to solve if he start up an Internet cafe?
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. One.
D. Four.
(C)
Automobiles were originally developed in Europe. German engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz built the first successful gasoline engines in 1885. After 1900, however, the United States became a leader in automobile production.
The first cars were handmade and very expensive. Only people in rich cities could afford them. The first company to make gasoline cars in the U.S. was the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Then, in 1901, Ransom E. Olds Began mass-producing his car, the Oldsmobile. In 1913 Henry Ford made great strides in the mass production of cars by using an assembly line in his factory. Mass production meant that each car was less expensive to make. Now car ownership was affordable for the average person. By 1916 there were more than one million cars in the United States.
The automobile gave people the freedom to travel anywhere there were passable roads. Families that lived great distance apart could travel by automobile to visit each other. People could visit places they had never seen before.
Before the mass production of cars, people lived close to work. Their means of transportation included walking, riding a bicycle, using a horse and carriage, or taking a train. The automobile gave people the ability to live farther away from work. The result was that gradually people moved out of the cities to the less crowded suburbs.
The automobile industry created millions of jobs. The jobs were not just in the auto factories, where the cars were assembled. Workers were needed to make auto parts, run gas stations and repair shops, and work at new motels and restaurants that served people who traveled by car. Jobs became available at car rental companies. People were needed to build roads. These jobs and many others still exist because of the automobile.
54. The first gasoline cars that were produced were ________.
A. very affordable
B. very expensive
C. mass-produced
D. bought by many people
55. The rise of the automobile industry ___________.
A. destroyed many jobs
B. made travel more difficult
C. created many jobs
D. had no effect on suburbs
56. Cars that were mass-produced __________.
A. made people move to the cities
B. were bought by only a few people
C. made nature enjoying more difficult
D. were possible for more people to afford
57. Before the automobile was mass-produced, people traveled in the following ways except
A. by airplane. B. on foot. C. by horse and carriage. D. by bicycle.
(D)
A small city in southwest Britain is banning(禁用) plastic bags to help the environment and cut waste—a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.
Shopkeepers in Modbury agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead.
Last month, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags. Internationally, laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland, where governments either tax (收税) shoppers who use them or fine companies that hand them out. Bangladesh already bans them, and so do at least 30 small Alaskan villages.
Modbury, about 225 miles southwest of London, has also declared a bag amnesty(宽限期), allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that are kept at home. They will be sent for traveling.
The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, who saw the effect of bags on sea life while he works in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman. She said response(反应) in the town so far had been “really positive”
“Modbury is quite an old—fashioned city and a lot of people have wicker baskets to go out shopping anyway,” Hosking told Sky News Television.
The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research agency, states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone. More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world.
58. What does the underlined word “ disposable” in the passage mean?
A. acceptable
B. throw—away
C. long lasting
D. valuable
59. It can be inferred from the passage that _____________.
A. most of the people in Modbury continue to use plastic bags
B. most countries in the world have passed laws to ban plastic bags
C. fewer and fewer plastic bags will be used in the world
D. San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags in the world
60. Which of the following may be the best title of the text?
A. British Cities Banning Plastic Bags
B. Some Cities Banning Plastic Bags
C. Effect of Plastic Bags on Sea Animals
D. Environmental Protection
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