阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

When I was a little girl, I lived in Jamaica Plain. Rose, my best friend and I used to dream about raising a   16   of our own some day and living next door to one another.

  In 1953，I got married to Dick. Rose joked that her marriage(婚姻) would bring us closer

to our   17  . But in 1955, I had to say bye to Rose,   18   Alaska with Dick. Rose was

  19   but wished me the best of luck. We kept in touch for a few years by telephone    20  ,

but soon we lost touch with one another.

Later I   21   Jamaica Plain, which had changed completely. Rose was   22   to be found.

Fifty-two years   23   and I’ve raised a family of five. My children now have families of their own. On my 80^th birthday I   24   a call. “Hello?” I said, “Hi, Natalie, it’s Rose.” The

  25   on the other end replied. Oh, my best friend Rose. We haven’t seen each other yet, but we have   26   many hours on the phone talking about 52 years of our lives. The interesting thing is that even after 52 years of separation (分离) , our personalities and interests are still very   27  .       

We didn’t just   28   each other best friend, but we were truly best friends and   29   now we can be best friends again. Real friends have two things in   30  ，a compatible (能共处的) personality and a strong-willed character. It is just the two things that keep the friendship for ever.

阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

                               A

 “Pass the salt, please.” How many times have you heard that? Salt is so common in our life that we use it to make our food taste better every day. But salt has many other uses that you may have never tried before.

If you have trouble with ants, put a little salt on the ants’ road. This should stop them from going any farther. If you have been stung (刺) by a bee, wet the area. Then cover it with salt. This will stop the pain (痛).

Before you throw away the wrinkled-looking (起皱的) apple, try some salt. Put the apple in water with a little salt, and watch the wrinkles disappear.

Milk and salad both stay fresher when you put a bit of salt in it.

Put a little salt in your shoes to take care of bad smells. You can also use salt to remove(去除) the smell of onions from your hands.

Someone left a glass on your wooden table, and now there’s a mark. Mix a few drops of water together with a spoon of salt. Then clean the mark until it disappears.

Take care of bad breath with a mixture(混合物) of salt and baking soda (小苏打). Add the mixture to half of water, and wash your mouth.

To work out many of life’s problems, look no further than the salt in your kitchen.

31. This passage tells us _____________ other uses of salt except its daily use.

   A. three                         B. four                        C . five                        D. six

32. From the passage we know _______________.

   A. salt can be used to remove marks

B. salt can help apples to taste better

   C. the smell of salt is enjoyed by ants and bees

   D. salt will give out a bad smell when it’s put with onions

33. How does the writer show us the salt is useful? 

A. By telling stories.                                              B. By giving examples.

C. By doing experiments.                                   D. By using people’s words.

B

Quite often we see people driving carelessly and paying no attention to anyone else on the road. In fact, 75 percent of the time, car accidents happened because of carelessness and drivers’ mistakes.

What about you? Are you a safe driver, or have you developed dangerous driving habits that put you and others in danger?

According to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, carelessness lead to one-fourth of all US accidents. And drivers who don’t pay attention to the road cause 10 percent of all the accidents. The following actions may lead to accidents every day:

◎ Eating, driving and smoking while driving.

◎ Picking something up off the floor.

◎ Reading a map or something else.

◎      35    .

Studies also show that using a phone while driving increase one’s danger of a car accident by 400 percent! However, texting(发短信) while driving can be even worse. It suggests that this common practice might be even more dangerous than drinking while driving. Our magazine last month has reported that texting drivers had slower reaction times than drinking drivers. When drivers are texting, their accident risk was 23 times higher than when they weren’t texting.

So, are you feeling sorry for any of these dangerous driving habits? If so, make some changes today!

34. Who is the passage mainly written to?

A. Teachers.         B. Students.         C. Drivers.         D. Police.

35. Which of the following can’t be put in the blank(空白)?

A. Driving while tired                        B. Wearing your seat-belt

C. Turning to talk to someone                  D. Watching something on the road

36. The underlined phrase “this common practice” refers to         .

A. texting while driving                      B. phoning while driving   

C. drinking while driving                     D. careless driving

37. What can we learn from the passage?

A. 10% of the accidents are caused by drivers who are phoning.

B. Texting while driving increase a car accident by 400 percent!

C. Texting drivers had slower reaction times than drinking drivers.

D. It tells us how to give up these dangerous driving habits.

C

A mouse looked through a hole in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a box. “What is in it?” The mouse wondered, but he was shocked to discover it was a mouse trap(夹子). Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning everyone, “There is a mouse trap in the house! There is a mouse trap in the house!”

The chicken, with her head high, looked at the mouse and said, “Shut up. Little Ugly. This is a big problem to you, but it has nothing to do with me. I can’t be troubled by it.”
  The mouse turned to the pig and told him. The pig said, “I am so sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray(祈祷). You are always in my prayers.”

The mouse turned to the cow, who said, “Moo, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose.”

Now the mouse had to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.

That very night，a sound was heard through the house, like that of a mouse trap catching something. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big snake whose tail was caught by the trap. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever.

It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took his sharp knife to the farmyard, the chicken was killed.

His wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig.

The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died. Many people came to her home. The farmer had the cow killed to provide for all of them to eat.

Next time when someone is facing a problem, don’t say that it has nothing to do with you.

38. The mouse was surprised because it saw_________.

A. a mouse trap                                                    B. a big snake

C. a box full of rice                                        D. the farmer and his wife 

39. According to the passage, the mouse is_________. 

A. lazy                  B. hardworking                    C. kind                  D. foolish

40. What does the underlined sentence “it’s no skin off my nose ” probably mean?

A. My skin hurts.                                           B. My nose looks terrible.

C. We should face the problem.                       D. It has nothing to do with me.

41. What can we learn from the story?  

A. Traps can always cause danger.          

B. It is better to be safe than to be sorry.

C. We should work together in time of trouble. 

D. It’s our duty to keep the balance of nature.

D

What do people do with their old, out-of-date but still useful computers? Most people don’t know what to do with them. Many old computers are put away in homes. Many more are simply thrown out with the rubbish.

Finally, some companies are thinking of ways to bring down the number of old computers. Sony has agreed to help recycle old Sony products. Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other companies now also take back some old computers.

In some countries, laws are being passed, too. Computer companies will have to pay for collecting and recycling their used products. And 70% of computer waste must be recycled. The idea behind the laws is that computer companies themselves should pay the cost. That will encourage them to make computers that are easier and cheaper to repair and upgrade(升级).

Yet while many people are throwing away good computers, others cannot afford them at all. Hundreds of organizations are working to solve this problem. They collect and repair old computers. Some also teach others how to repair computers.

The computers then go to schools, charities and people who need them. Giving a used computer to one of these organizations can turn one person’s rubbish into someone else’s useful things—and cut down on waste, too.

42. How do people usually deal with their old but useful computers?

A. They break them.                             B. They sell them

C. They stop using them.                           D. They try to repair them.

43. Computer companies ______ after the laws are passed in some countries.

A. will pay for repairing all the used products                    

B. will pay for recycling all the old computers

C. should make computers lighter and smaller to carry.     

D. should make computers easier and cheaper to repair

44. What does the underlined word “They” refer to in Paragraph 4?

A. Schools.              B. Countries.            C. Companies.        D. Organizations.

45. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. Ways to repair computers                        B. The future of old computers

C. Ways to deal with new computers                 D. The future of computer companies