2012.4大学英语B阅读判断题

Americans, like many people elsewhere in the world, like to invite friends to friends to their homes for an evening of food, drink and conversation. 1.Americans like to invite their friends over to dinner at their homes.(T) 2.Most Americans prefer informal parties because they cannot afford formal ones.(F) 3.Guests sit and eat at an informal dinner, in the dining room or in the living room (T) 4.According to the passage, people seldom have hot food at a picnic.(T) 5.The picnic is considered a more enjoyable form of meal because a dessert is always several. (F) A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. 1.The soldier called his parents from San Francisco after having fought in Vietnam.(T) 2.The soldier told his parents that he wanted them to meet his friend in the army.(F) 3.His father considered his plan unacceptable.(T) 4.a few days later the parents were told by the police that their son had killed himself.(T) 5.The son killed himself because he was unable to find a job.(F) A guide dog is a dog especially trained to guide a blind person. 1.A dog trained to help the blind. (T) 2.At the age of fourteen months does a dog begin its training course. (T) 3.Learning to guide its owner in the street.(F) 4.To teach the dog how to cooperate with its future owner.(T) 5.It’s hard to train a guide dog. (F) A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. 1.The story took place in the United States.(F) 2.They young man’s family was poor wh ile the beautiful girl is rich, according to the passage. (T) 3.The young man wanted to buy a present as a Christmas gift for the girl. (F) 4.The shop manager came to talk to the young man, because he was poorly dressed. (F) 5.On the birthday of his fiancée, the young man was excited because the girl was in love with him. (F) After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to a new neighborhood. 1.Albert lived there for many years. (F) 2.Albert was moving because he did not like the place. (F) 3.Albert and the dog became friends a year ago. (T) 4.The dog visited Albert every day because it wanted the chocolate. (T) 5.Albert “had to bribe him” means he had to take care of him. (F) A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. 1.Marlboro commercials were allowed on television in America before 1868. (F) 2.The word “prohibited” in the first paragraph mean “forbidden”.(T) 3.When they filmed the ad, Winfield was too drunk.(F) 4.From the passage, we know that Winfield was a rich man. (F) 1 5.When people recognized Winfield, he felt uncomfortable. (T)当 A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is haunted(闹鬼的) 1.Mr. James was the owner of the public house.(T) 2.Mr, James had not turned off the lights that night. (F) 3.Mr.James built the house. (F) 4. Mr.James found sixty empty bottles. (F) 5.The writer of the passage believes Mr.James’ story.(F) About 130 years ago. Thomas Edison of the US invented the light bulb. Edison’s bulb has turned night into day ever since. 1.Thomas Edison invented the CFL bulb 130 years ago. (F) 2.Countries in the European Union will not use Edison-style bulbs by 2009. (T) 3.Using CFLs helps protect environment. (T) 4.If you get an older bulb for 1 Euro, the CFL bulb will cost you 8 Euros (T) 5.CFLs jave been widely used instead of the older bulbs for several years. (F) All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer. 1.According to this passage we know that people began to play about one hundred years ago. (F) 2.The writer didn’t tell us in this passage that basketball was invented in America. (T) 3.People all over the world enjoy sports because sports are interesting.(F) 4.From this passage we can see that according to the author sports and games are significant to our life in many respects.(T) 5.The writer’s attitude towards sports is positive. (T) An English travel er found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for his journey back home. 1.The story happened on a ship from Norway to England. (T) 2.The traveler didn't go to the dinning room first, because he had no money. (T) 3.The traveler went to the dinning room to eat something because his friend had given him some money.( F) 4.The traveler had two meals on the ship. (F) 5.After the traveler finished eating, he came to know that travelers on the ship had free meals.(T) Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. 1.Background music was first used in the factories, shops and restaurants in the USA.(T) 2.An American marketing expert has found background music can increase sales or factory production.(T) 3.Slow music has no effect on sales. (F) 4.Slow music is useless in factories in increasing sales. (F) 5.Restaurant owners are advised to play lively music to increase overall sales.(F) Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reas on to believe that trees do communicate with each other. 1.It’s implied that caterpillars do not feed on leaves that have an unpleasant taste. (T) 2.The willow tree described in the passage protects itself by growing more branches. (F) 3.The willow tree was able to communicate with other trees by giving off a special smell. (T) 4.It can be inferred from the passage that bees communicate by making special movements. (T) 5.The author holds that the incident described in the passage must be checked more th oroughly.(F) Chess must be one of the oldest games in the world. An Arab traveler in India in the year 900 wrote that it was played “long, long ago.” 1.Chess was played in India long before 900.(T) 2.One player has won the game when he attacks the other player’s king.(F) 3.Chess is a game for all sorts of people.(T) 4.Only two people can play chess sitting at the same table.(F) 5.According to the old rules of the game, the king could not move anywhere.(F) Clown(小丑)like to make people laugh. They pai nt their faces and put on funny noses. 1.Clowns make people laugh by doing all kinds of silly things. (T) 2.Clowns are mostly female.(F) 3.The sentence “ A circus is not a circus without clowns” means a circus will not be of much fun if it has no clowns.(T) 4.Clowns are a great favorite with children. (T) 5.The best interpretation of the old saying “Laughter is good medicine” may be laughter cures people’s diseases.(F) Computers can injure you. Most other injuries happen suddenly. 1.A computer screen may injure your eyes if your eyes are too close to it.(T) 2.Hand and wrist injuries are caused when you get plenty of exercise.(F) 3.Your eyes and hands will be safe if you often take rests from working.(T) 4.It is good for your back and neck if you sit in the right way. (T) 5.The best title for the text is “ How to Protect Your Eyes.”(F) Computers are very important to modern life. Many people think that in the future computers will be used in lots of aspects of everyday life. 1.In the first paragraph it is thought that people will use computers to play games, go shopping and make telephone calls.(T) 2.Computerized books won’t be very expensive is NOT mentioned in the passage. T() 3.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means people like to read paper books. (T) 4.The last paragraph tells us internet shopping is a great pleasure.(F) 5.The best title of the passage could be “ Computers Are the Future.”(F) Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed. 1.People in China have to pay for using plastic bags at shops and supermarkets now. (T) 2.China made this rule because plastic bags were bad for the environment.(T) 3.The Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shopping.(T) 4.Some students in Chongqing buy cloth bags for their parents. (F) 5.The main idea of the article is the bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution.(F) Do you want to know something about the history of weather? Don’t look at the sky. 1.It is understood that in a favorable climate tree rings grow far from each other.T 2.Trees brought lots of sunlight and rainfall.(F) 3.The scientists are interested in studying tree rings because they can tell whether the climate was favorable or not.(T) 4.Studying dead tree rings shows how the people left. (F) 5.The people had to leave the place of New Mexico because they had cut down all the trees. (T) E-mail is one of the biggest threats to your home computer. 1.The main idea of the first paragraph is that we should learn how E-mail works to take care of our computers. (T) 2.The underlined word “capturing” probably mean “taking”. (T) 3.As the Internet is open to anyone, we should not read and write messages in our home computers. (F) 4.The passage is mainly talking about The Safety of Home Computers. (T) 5.E-mail-borne viruses can infect human body. (F) Everyone knows what a needle is. Of course there are needles and needles… 1.The word “name” in the first paragraph means to give a name to the needles.(F) 2.The underlined phr ase “ from bad to worse” in the second paragraph refers to the state of the man’s health.(T) 3.According to the passage, soon after the acupuncture, the man was completely recovered.(T) 4.“You are too late.1t’s killed” means that the pain was killed becaus e the doctor came late. (F) 5.The passage tells us that the effect of acupuncture on the patient was unbelievable.(T) For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping 1.Teleshopping is cheap in Europe. (F) 2.People like teleshopping because it is easier. (T) 3.Some Europeans don't like teleshopping because they don’t watch TV. (F) 4.In Germany, teleshopping may have fewer buyers. (F) 5.The best title of this passage is “Teleshopping in Europe”. (T) Have you ever listened to young children talking in the playground? They are always boasting. 1.According to the passage, the meaning of the word “boast” is “ to talk big”.(T) 2.Harry boasted about the number of times his father had a bath every week.(T) 3.Gavin boasted the most. (F) 4.Ted’s fathe r often had a both twice a day.(F) 5.”He spoke too soon.” In the last paragraph means he was wrong. (T) If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers. 1.The passage mainly tells us abut the importance of taking care of plants. (T) 2. Forests are homes for different kinds of animals. (T) 3.The need for more wood and more land help to protect our forests. (F) 4.We’ll have more and greater forests in 20 or 30 years in some people’s view. (F) 5. The writer thinks it necessary to protect the forests. (T) In Sydney there is a special long-distance running race called the City of Surf. The race takes place on the second Sunday in August every year. 1.An annual long-distance running race in Sydney is “The City of Surf”.(T) 2.The race starts in center Sydney and finishes at Bondi.(T) 3.The race is held in winter. (F) 4.Local citizens take part in the race. (F) 5.Old-aged runners are especially encouraged to join the race. (F) In 1920, barely out of his teens, Alfred Hitchcock went to work for an American film company which had opened a studio in Islington, London. 1.Alfred Hitchcock’s first job at the studio was writing captions for sil ent movies.(T) 2.Accordin g to the cont ext, “st ep in and plu g gags” (in lin e 3, para.2)mean s asking for one’s h elp.(F) 3.Telling a story through dialogue prepared Hitchcock for his success later.(F) 4.He was determined to draw the audience’s attention and k eep tension in his film-making.(T) 5.He had taken up different jobs before he succeeded. (T) In 1933an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney. 1.Walt Disney made Donald Duck film. (T) 2.The first Donald Duck film was made in 1934. (T) 3.Clarence Nash was a film- maker. (F) 4.The underlined word “audience” in the second paragraph means readers. (T) 5.The underlined word “goody- goody” in the second paragraph means a person who likes to appear to be faultless in behavior. (T) Let’s watch the weather forecast on television. 1.The speaker is planning to go traveling within the country. (T) 2.The speaker can fly to Northern Scotland tomorrow morning, because it won’t be foggy there tomorrow. (T) 3.It will be a bright clear day in East Auglia tomorrow. (F) 4.The forecast mainly tells us the whole country will have fine weather tomorrow.(F) 5.You can infer from the passage that none of the places offers ideal weather tomorrow for travel.(T) Large modern cities are too big to control. They impose their own living conditions on the people who live in them. 1.It can be seen from the passage that the author doesn’t like living in the city.(T) 2.According to the 1st paragraph, city-dwellers don’t have a natura l ways of life.(T) 3.The phrase “the rhythm of nature” in the 1st paragraph refers to the change of seasons.(T) 4.The cost of living in large modern cities is very low.(F) 5.It can be inferred from the passage that the author loves nature and hopes to be close to it.(T) Last Friday a storm tore through two villages in the New Territories destroying fourteen homes 1.Some of the people were taken to hospital because they had been badly injured.(T) 2.When the storm first began, Mr. Tan was inside his house. (T) 3.When Mr. Tan’s house fell down, only one of his children was inside it.(T) 4.Mr. Woo and her family escaped injury because her husband had gone to work. (F) 5.The best title for the passage would be “A Terrible Storm”(T) Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. 1.The best title for this passage is Language and Culture.(T) 2.According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by learning its body language.(F) 3.According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language.(F) 4.To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.(T) 5.Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultures.(F) Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civ il rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. 1.Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old. (T) 2.Martin Luther King was a black minister only. (F) 3.Martin Luther King’s Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years. (T) 4.The underline word “delivered” in the second paragraph could be replaced by “gave”. (T) 5.The best title for this passage is “Civil Rights Law”. (F) Mrs. Week was reading a newspaper story to her class. The story said:” were you ever in a hospital when you were small? How did you feel?” 1.The first newspaper story was mainly about sick children in children’s hospital.(T) 2. let the class make some toys and give them to the children in the hospital was in Mrs. Weeks’ mind.(T) 3.At first, the doctors in C hildren’s Hospital wanted to get some money to buy toys for the sick children.(T) 4.From the passage we can learn that what Mrs. Weeks really wanted to do is to ask her class to save money for toys.(F) 5.The author’s tone in this passage is enthusiastic. T Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem. 1.Leonardo Da Vinci made designs for flying machines. (T) 2.Eight hundred years ago, an Englishman made a kind of flying machine. (F) 3.In fact, the Englishman who tried to fly lost his life. (T) 4.The very first air passengers in the balloon were two Frenchmen. (F) 5.The two Frenchmen rose above Frenchmen rose above Paris in November 1783.(T) Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters. 1. There were five children in the White family (T) 2.One Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. White wanted to go shopping with their children. (F) 3. Mr. White liked the place so much that he bought lots of sweets. (T) 4.From the story we know Mrs. White was a little angry with Mr. White. (T) 5.Of all the family members, Mr. White enjoyed playing there most that Sunday. Mr. White lived in a small village. His parents hadn't enough money to send him to school. 1.Mr. White was born in a farmer’s family. (T) 2.Mr. White hoped to be respected because he was the richest man in their town.(F) 3.The children often asked him to tell them something interesting because he knew more than any other person in the town. (T) 4.All people believed Mr. White except the children.(F) 5.Mr. White wo uldn’t like to admit that he was wrong.(T) No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon(外科医生)and part of it taken out. 1.It is few years since a man being operated felt all the pain. (T) 2.Long ago, when the sick man was operated on, he could feel all the pain. (T) 3.Using the laughing gas, the people did not seem to feel pain. (T) 4.If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on, he still felt pain. (T) 5.One who took too much of the laughing gas would laugh all the time. (F) Nancy and Peter McCall like sports. In the summer they swim and in the winter they ski. 1.Nancy and Peter listened to the weather forecast for the weekend. (T) 2.Nancy and Peter are planning a trip to the village for the weekend. (F) 3.It is going to snow Friday night according to the weather forecast. (T) 4.The weather will be warm and rainy on Sunday.(F) 5.Nancy and Peter often do sports. (T) Now, you’ll be coming back here to brush up your English, so you’ll want to make as much conversation as possible. 1.The writer suggests that they had better not stay in a place where there are a lot of young people.(F) 2.According to the passage, we should believe the English are mostly friendly.(T) 3.We can talk about anything with English except their dogs.(F) 4.According to the passage, if you want to talk with the English, usually you have talk to them first.(T) 5.The best place to talk to the English is in a restaurant.(F) No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. 1.This passage is mainly about the history of ice cream.(T) 2.Marco Polo’s remark shows that he traveled in India.(F) 3.Ice cream was unknown in France until 1640.(F) 4.Ice cream was introduced to England by King Charles I.(T) 5.Development of ice cream in France and other countries is discussed in the passage. (T) One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me 1.The teacher went to the library to find a job for Bill Gates.(T) 2.The librarian was too busy to have a rest. (F) 3.The sentence ”He picked up the idea immediately” means that he learned that system quickly. (T) 4.Bill Gates was expected to find books with wrong cards. (T) 5.Bill Gates felt sad when his family would move to another school area. (F) Oil is so important that it is sometimes called “black gold”. 1.From this passage, we can know oil is a source of energy. ( T) 2. According to the passage, we can tell that oil is found only under water. (F) 3.Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. (T) 4.Many things are made from oil. (T) 5.The main idea of the whole story is that oil is important for us but hard to find. (T) One way that scientists learn about man is by studying animals, such as mice and monkeys. 1.The scientists in the laboratory are studying the relationship between the amount of food and diet. (F) 2.The first tow groups are receiving the most food. (F) 3.The first group is the thinnest because they do not have a healthy diet. (F) 4.Normal mice usually live for two years. (T) 5.The text tells us that people who eat less and exercise more will live longer. (T) On February 14t h many people in the world celebrate an unusual holiday, St. Valentine’s Day, a special day for lovers. 1.The passage is mainly about a special holiday. (T) 2.Valentine was put into prison because he sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guar d. (F) 3.It is because he refused to accept the Emperor’s offer that Valentine was killed. (T) 4.Valentines are cards usually red, and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them. (T) 5.People send Valentines to each other nowadays to celebrat e Valentine’s birthday. (F) Our child’s behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what he has done. 1.The lecture is mainly about Children’s behavior and our response. (T) 2.The lecture is based on the principle in behavioral psychology. (T) 3.The audience at this lecture might be social workers. (F) 4.According to the lecture, the child was sent to his room as a kind of reward.(F) 5.People, places and things are elements of “environment” meant by the lecture. (T) People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. 1.Progress in scientific research leads to people’s deeper understanding of health. (T) 2.According to the passage, to people of today, health means absence of illness. (F) 3.The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer. (T) 4.We can infer from the passage nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food. (F) 5.This passage is mainly about different understandings of the term “ health”. (T) Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snow has looked red. 1.The first two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors. (T) 2.No two snowflakes are just the same size, but all snowflakes are hard. (F) 3.Snowflakes begin with cloud. (F) 4.The bigger the snowflakes are, the softer they are. (T) 5.Black snow fell only in European Countries. (F) Some British and American people like to invite friends and colleagues for a meal at home. 1.If your English or American friends don’t invite you to dinner at home, it doesn’t show they don’t like you.(T) 2.When you are invited to go to your friend’s home, you may go at any time. (F) 3.In England and America,it’s not polite to ask the price of something. (T) 4. In the passage, the order of the serving of a meal is meat or fish with vegetables-dessert-soup-coffee.(F) 5.You’d better write a short “Thank you” letter to your hosts or give them a call if you want to be extra polite.(T) Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. 1.You can most probably read this kind of passage in a telephone book. (F) 2.The main idea of the passage is to tell people to take useful things out of rubbish. (F) 3.The underline word “sewage” in the second paragraph means laundry. (F) 4.According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again to feed plants. (T) 5.We should take care of a used metal box by reusing and recycling it. (T) The climate of any place is the kind of weather it usually has over a long period of time. 1.Climate means the weather of a certain place over a long period of time. (T) 2.”…even the foods we eat depend on the climate of the place where we live.” means we eat different foods according to the weather. 3.People living near the poles tend to get more sunlight than those near the equator.(F) 4.Rainfalls depend on many things except the winds. (F) 5.The best title for the passage is Climate. (F) There was once an ant that was very thirsty. 1.The ant was playing when it ran here and there. (F) 2.The drop of water fell on the ant when it was nearly dying.(T) 3.The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.(F) 4.The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.(T) 5.The ant’s friends saved the girl’s life. (T) These days, children often think of superheroes(超级英雄)as cute (漂亮的), cool and strong supermen. 1.J.K.Ro wling was very poor and didn’t get work for herself when she wrote the first book. (T) 2. When Rowling thought of the idea of writing her book, she was on her way to find work. (T) 3. Four books of the seven have come out according to this passage. (T) 4. Rowling want to show to her readers, how things are not always what they seem to be. (T) 5.Rowling wrote the first book with her daughter’s help. (F) Today the official language of the United States and most of Canada is English 1.A good title for this selection is The French and Indian War. (T) 2. Most of North America today has the English culture and language. (F) 3.General Wolfe died in France. (F) 4.Washington lost his battle at the fort on the Ohio River at the end of the war. (F) 5.Both general died in the final battle. (T) There are many kinds of ants in the world that always live in companies. 1.The ants that come to our picnics are having fun. (F) 2.According to this passage, the black ants’ job is to clean up the grass. (F) 3.As soon as an ant finds an injured insect, it carries it away and eats it. (F) 4.More ants learn about the beetle from other ants. (T) 5.The ants clean the grass by carrying away everything but the shell. (T) There was once a man in South America who had a p arrot(鹦鹉),a pet bird that could imitate human speech. 1. The reason why the parrot couldn’t say the name of his native town is not mentioned in the story.(T) 2.The man lost his temper at the fat that the bird failed to say the name of the town.(T) 3.The man in the kitchen killed the three chickens.(F) 4.The bird managed to escape from the chicken house.(F) 5.The man loved his parrot very much and always treated it kindly. (F) The Spring Festival together with the winter holidays often means sharing cakes, candies and other delicious food with friends and families. 1.Doctors find out that eating too much may be bad for your memory. (T) 2.The underlined word “slipping” in the second paragraph means forgetting immediately.(F) 3.A famous doctor thinks that we can save our memories through mental exercise. (T) 4.The writer thinks that forgetfulness is a big problem we face as we grow older.(T) 5.Doctors say we can save our memories even through small efforts in our diet. (T) There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had a job in a big company and was given his weekly wages every Friday evening. 1.The small man was allowed to keep just enough to buy his lunch in the office every day.(T) 2.The man won a lottery one day. (T) 3.The woman is good-natured. (F) 4.The woman was pleased yet suspicious when her husband won a lottery.(T) 5.The man had to give almost all his money to his wife every week. (F) The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single-engine airplane. 1.Her engine went wrong when Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England. (T) 2.When Amelia Earhart saw flames coming from the engine, she changed her direction and landed in Ireland. (F) 3.According to the passage, Amelia Earhart’s reason for making her flights was to show that aviation was not just for men.(T) 4.Amelia Earhart was the first woman who succeeded in flying across the Atlantic Ocean alone.(T) 5.” A Dangerous Flight from North America to England” would be the best title for the passage. (F) Two years ago, my husband bought me a bike. If you live in a town, it is often faster than a car and you don’t have to worry about parking. 1.The writer’s husband bought her a new car two years ago. (F) 2.A bike is better than a car because it is much cheaper.(F) 3.The writer often uses her bike in summer.(T) 4.You must be careful when you ride a bike, for there are some problems.(T) 5.Riding a bike is a good exercise and it can make you feel younger.(T) The fourth Thursday in November is called Thanksgiving Day. In the United States, it is an annual occasion to show thanks to God for his goodness. 1.The passage is mainly about how Thanksgiving Day came into being.(T) 2.Thanksgiving Day was first celebrated in 1621 by English settlers of the Plymouth Colony.(T) 3.President Washington set Thursday, November 26,1789 as the First National Thanksgiving Day.(F) 4.Since 1863, the fourth Thursday of November has been set as an annual Thanksgiving Day, a nationwide holiday.(F) 5.The pattern of the Thanksgiving celebration has not changed through the years. The basic traditional food on Thanksgiving Day is roast turkey. (T) Younger people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas abou t life, work and play. 1.The passage is mainly about how adults and teenagers live together in a special group.(T) 2.The special program offered every winter in New York City.(F) 3.People will make more rules when someone breaks a rule.(F) 4.To find a way to solve the generation gap is NOT stated directly in the passage as a purpose of the program. (T) 5.Some teenagers learn photography when they are free.(T) Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner didn’t know what to do. 1.The waiter gave a beautiful menu to the guests when a gentleman and his lady friend came into the restaurant. (F) 2.The menus for the guests were the same on the outside but different inside.(T) 3.The male guest could remain calm when he ordered dish after dish because he was rich.(F) 4.The lady thought of her friend very generous after a meal at this restaurant.(T) 5.The story mainly suggests that people like to go to expensive restaurant.(F) When you want to go shopping, decide how much money you can spend for new clothes. 1.Many families wanted to have a signature of the general. (F) 2.The general came back to Washington after the First World War. (T) 3.The general ordered his men to look for all his teeth and buy all of them. (T) 4.The fact that the general’s name was on the label of each tooth shows that the general was famous. (T) 5.The teeth they collected most probably cost $1150. (F) What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? 1.The word “intelligent” in the 1st paragraph probably mean bright.(T) 2.According to the context we can guess that a genius is a normal person while an idiot is a funny person. (F) 3.A person born with a good brain and putting it into active use is more likely to become a genius.(T) 4.It is better for parents to praise and encourage their children more often. (T) 5. Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live. (F) Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry. ---AABBA Foulsham House is a fine, large house of the 1790s.It st and s b y t h e Ri ver Byer,i n t wen t y---fi ve h ect ares(公顷)o f t h e b est farml an d i n th e sou th west.----ABABA It was Monday. Mrs. Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat I the house.---AABBA The total area of land on earth is about 149 million square kilometers, or about 29 percent of the total area of the earth. ---- BABAA When Li Chen got married, his wife’s mother came to live with them. She was not an easy woman to live with. She was always complaining and never seemed to stop talking.---B ABAB Down the entrance hall of the school walk four eight-grade students. Each one is carrying a small basket with a single egg inside. -----ABBBA A poor boy, who had not enough money to buy a meal,stopped one hot summer at noon before an eating-house.---ABAAA As price and building costs keep rising, the “ do-it-yourself” (DIY)trend in the U.S. continues to grow. ----ABBAA Driving a car at high speed along a highway seems to be fun.You need only to follow the bright traffic signs beside the highways and it will take you to where you wish. -----AABAB Every country has its heroes.The heroes are the people, the nation and especially the young people admire.----ABAAB Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of priceless, individually tailored stories with which American grandparents of her day brought up children.----ABAAB Jean.Michael Lourdis was a promising young pianist. But when the young man played, it seemed to him, as if his hands were iron.----BABAA Jim walked into a shop which had a sign outside:” Second- hand clothes bought and sold.” He was carrying an old pair of trousers and asked the owner of the shop----BABBA My wealthy uncle was dying. He wanted to leave me his entire fortune, which was about half a million dollars.----BBAAA Scientific discoveries have changed man’s life a great deal during the past century.----BABBA Some of the notebooks George Washington kept as a young man are still I existence.----ABABB Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, has a population of more than three million. It is not only Australia’s oldest and largest city…----BABBA Man is a land animal,but he is also closely tied to the sea. Throu ghout history the sea has served the needs of man.---ABABA Weather has a great influence on people.It influences people’s health, intelligence and feelings.---ABABA Jane Gooddall first made friends with a chimp when she was one year old. ---- BABBA The man sitting opposite Robert was the Financial controller.----ABAAB