Part II Reading Comprehension Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfin-ished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one andmark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.

阅读材料，回答下面试题。

Fire can help people in many ways. But it can be very dangerous. Fire can heat water, warm houses, give light and cook. But fire can burn things, too. It can bum trees, houses, animals or people. Sometimes big fires can bum forests.

Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope (绳子) and brought fire down.

Today people know how to make a fire with matches (火柴) . Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can bum a piece of paper and the nit might bum a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. Fires need oxygen (氧气) Without oxygen they will die. Cover a fire with water, sand, or sometimes with your coat. This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it. Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you.

第11题单选 How did people begin to use fire?

A.Not everybody knows how people began to use fare.

B.Nobody knows how to make a fire.

C.It is an Australian who started a fire.

D.We are not sure how people began to use fare.

参考答案：D

第12题单选 Children mustn’t play with matches because__________.

A.matches burn paper

B.it isn’t interesting

C.they can be dangerous

D.they can burn a house

参考答案：C

第13题单选 When you are going to put out a fire, you__________.

A.must be careful

B.should keep air away from it

C.must know it is dangerous

D.should cover it with water

参考答案：B

第14题单选 We must be careful with fire, or it__________.

A.will die

B.will warm our houses

C.might burn us

D.won’t help us

参考答案：B

第15题单选 Which of the following is the main idea of this passage?

A.Fire can help people in many ways.

B.Fire can be both helpful and dangerous.

C.Fire can burn things and people.

D.We must be careful with matches.

参考答案：B

阅读材料，回答下面试题。

My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first jobwas to drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with abroomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.

It was very tediou work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Be-cause the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work ashard as I could. I' ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful andloyal to the people you work for.. More important, I earned my pay.

I was only six years old, but I was doing a man' s job. Our family needed every dollar wecould make because my father never earned more than $18 a week. Our home was a three-roomwood shack with dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money tohelp my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem, one of the mostimportant things a person can have.

When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down thefairway and spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant youwere fired, so I never miss one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands ofdollars playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.

The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guavalimb and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finallyI dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devo-tion and intensity I learned working in the field--except now I was driving golf balls with club, notoxen with a broomstick.

第16题单选 What was the writer' s first job?

A.To stand down the fairway at a golf course.

B.To spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them.

C.To drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields.

D.To watch the sugar-cane plantation.

参考答案：C

第17题单选 The word "tedious" in paragraph 2 most probably means__________

A.Hard

B.Boring

C.Interesting

D.long

参考答案：B

第18题单选 What did the writer learn about from his first job?

A.He could work as hard as possible.

B.He could go to work on time.

C.He should never fail to go to work.

D.He should be respectful and loyal to the people he works for.

参考答案：D

第19题单选 What gave the writer self-esteem?

A.Having a big family.

B.Bringing money back home to help the family.

C.Helping his father with the work.

D.All of the above.

参考答案：B

第20题单选 What was the writer' s dream while working at a golf course?

A.Making a lot of money by playing golf.

B.Becoming a successful golfer.

C.Running a golf course near his house.

D.Both A & B.

参考答案：A

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