单选题He said that he had turned the main engine one complete revolution with the （）.A turning gearB steering gearC spur gearD chain gear

A、course

B、dish

Tom said he had a fun day off．（对划线部分提问）

________.________Tom________ ?

At sixteen Ron Mackie might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. Get out of the classroom into a job, it said, and Ron obeyed. His father, supporting the decision, found a place for him in a supermarket.

You’re lucky, Ron, he said. For every boy with a job these days, there's a dozen without. So Ron joined the working world at twenty pounds a week.

For a year he spent his days filing shelves with tins of food. By the end of that time he was looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety(多样性) and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success.

One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart ad a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way for himself. That evening, in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a caf é run by an elderly man and his wife.

Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on for the restof the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron’s breath away. At quite times Ron had to check the old man’s arithmetic in the records of the business.

At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of 17 to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for 3 weeks. Late in October he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there; he was the only one who could keep the books.

(1)Ron Jackie left school at sixteen because _______.

A、his father made him leave

B、he didn't want to stay in school

C、he was worried about the future

D、he could earn a lot of money in the supermarket

(2)What did Ron’s father think about his leaving school?

A、He thought his son was doing the right thing.

B、He advised him to stay at school to complete his education.

C、He was against it.

D、He knew there was a job for every boy who wanted one.

(3)After a year, Ron to realize that ________.

A、he was interested in the job

B、his work at the supermarket was dull

C、being at work was much better than going to school

D、the store manager wanted to get rid of him

(4)Ron left the supermarket because ______.

A、he knew he would find work in Bournemouth

B、he took a job as lorry driver

C、he gave up the job because he felt unwell

D、he wanted to work at the seaside

(5)Ron was able to take over the shoe shop because ________.

A、he got on well with the manager there

B、he knew how to keep the accounts of the business

C、he had had experience of selling books

D、he was young and strong

By saying "Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one", the father meant that ______.

A. he wished people had not built the bonfire

B. he hoped people would not build any more bonfires

C. he hoped there would be no more wars in the world

D. he wished the Second World War had not happened

Passage Two

The other day I heard an American say to a Chinese student of English "You speak very good English." But the student answered, "No, no. My English is very poor." The foreigner was quite surprised at the answer. Thinking he had not made himself understood or the student had not heard him clearly, he said, "Yes indeed, you speak English very well." But the Chinese student still kept saying "No". In the end the foreigner gave up and was at a loss what to say. What's wrong with the student's answer? It is because he did not accept a compliment(赞美的话)as the English people do. He should have said "Thank you" instead of "No". He actually understood what the American had said. But he thought he should be modest. If he said "Thank you", that would mean he was too proud. According to the western culture, if someone says the dishes you have cooked are very delicious, you should say "Thank you". If someone says to a Woman "You look so beautiful with the new clothes on", she should be very happy and answer "Thank you". In our country we think being modest is a virtue and showing off a bad thing. But in the west, if you are modest and say "No, I'm afraid I can't do it well", then the others will take it for granted that you really cannot do it. If you often say "No", you will certainly be looked down upon by others. When asking for a job, if one says something like "Let me have a try on the job" instead of "Yes, I can certainly do it," he or she will never expect to get it. So in the west one should always be confident. Without self-confidence, he cannot go anywhere. Confidence is of great importance to one in a country where competition is quite keen.

40. Why was the American surprised at the Chinese student's answer?

A. Because he wondered whether the student could really speak good English.

B. Because he could hardly hear what the student had said.

C. Because he wouldn't like others to say "No".

D. Because the way to accept a compliment in China is not the same as that in the western countries.

The word horsepower(马力) was first used two hundred years ago.James Watt had made the first widely used steam(蒸气)engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.

He discovered that a horse could lift a 3,300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3,300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute.

Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepower engine.

6.The passagesays that Watt made the first widely used steam engine.

A.T

B.F

7.Watt made up a unit of measurement based on the strength of a horse.

A.T

B.F

8.Watt wanted to find a way to lift a 3300-pound weight.

A.T

B.F

9.One horsepower would equal the weight a horse could lift.

A.T

B.F

10.The title of the passageis "How the Term Horsepower Came into Being".

A.T

B.F

He said he had no difficulty ______the boat himself.

A. mending

B. to mend

C. in mending

D. A and C

Richard Gray was a famous explorer ( 探险家 ) . He was also a millionaire. He had visited every country in the world. He had crossed Antarctica, flown across the Atlantic by balloon, and climbed Mount Everest. Last year he decided to walk across Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth. He walked for days over the hot desert sand. One night he found the camp where he had been the night before. Gray had walked in a circle. He was lost.

Two days later he had drunk all his water. He couldn't walk. He crawled to the top of a sand dune (沙丘) ,and there he saw a man. The man was wearing smart, clean trousers, a white shirt and a tie. Gray crawled over to him.

“Water⋯ water ⋯” he said.

“I'm terribly sorry, old boy,” replied the man, “but I haven't got any water with me.”

“Help me!” shouted Gray, “I'm a rich man…a millionaire… I'II give you anything. ”

“That's very nice of you, old boy,” said the man. “Look, I can't give you any water, but would you like to buy my tie?”

“A tie? Of course not! ” screamed Gray, and crawled away. He crawled slowly up the next sand dune. His mouth was full of sand. His lips were cracked (破裂) and dry. He I couldn't breathe.

He reached the top of the dune and there he saw a huge good hotel.

Girls were swimming in the large swimming pool. Beautiful fountains were all around the hotel.

“Is it a mirage (幻景)? ” he thought. “Am I dying?”

He stood up and staggered (蹒跚) down the dune.

A waiter in shining white uniform. came out of the door.

“Water ⋯water ⋯ a bath! Food! ” screamed Gray.

“I'm sorry, you can't come into this hotel,” said the waiter.

“Why not? I've got plenty of money. . . I'm a millionaire. ”

“Ah,” replied the waiter,“ but you aren't wearing a tie! ”

(1)The famous explorer _________.

A、had crossed Antarctica and the Atlantic by balloon

B、had traveled all over the world

C、had walked across Death Valley

D、had ever been a millionaire

(2)The man offered to sell his tie to Gray because _________.

A、he wished to get some money from Gray

B、Gray was a rich man

C、he didn't have any water with him

D、he thought a millionaire needed to wear a tie

(3)Gray saw _________ from the top of the next dune.

A、a large good hotel

B、many swimming boys

C、a lot of drinking water

D、a beautiful mirage

(4)At last Richard Gray_________

A、got some water to drink

B、was not permitted to enter the hotel

C、was very sorry for the waiter

D、was dying

(5)If Gray __________, he would have got some water to drink in the hotel.

A、had got a lot of money with him

B、had put on his tie at once

C、had said he was a famous millionaire

D、had bought the tie from the man

Passage Five

Jim was intelligent, but he hated hard work. He said, "You work hard, and make a lot of money, and then the government takes most of it. I want easy work that gives me lots of money and that the government doesn't know about".

So he became a thief--but he did not do the stealing himself. He got others to do it. They were much less intelligent than he was, so he arranged everything and told them what to do.

One day they were looking for rich families to rob, and Jim sent one of them to a large beautiful house just outside the town.

It was evening, and when the man looked through one of the windows, he saw a young man and a girl playing on a piano.

When he went back to Jim, he said, "That family can't have much money. Two people were playing on the same piano there."

52. What Jim said can be said to be______.

A. an excuse

B. a lie

C. a joke

D. a truth

A. has; seen

B. has; see

C. had; seen