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⊙ 人物故事类 Passage 1
Some children are afraid to go to the dentist, but not me. I’m a boy of 8 and I have a funny dentist. His name is Dr. Smileyface. I don’t think that’s his real name, but that’s what he tells all the children who come to see him.
He has a cool waiting room. It has video games and a big toy box. Dr. Smileyface always wears funny hats. Sometimes he has his face painted. He asks funny questions like “Are you married yet?” and “Do you eat flowers to make your breath smell so sweet?” That makes me laugh. One time, he told me this joke, “What has lots of teeth but never goes to the dentist? A comb!” When I laughed, he pulled my tooth. It didn’t hurt at all! He also teaches me how to take care of my teeth in an interesting way. Before I leave, he always gives me a surprise. Last week he gave me a toy ship and I liked it very much.
1. How does the writer feel when he goes to the dentist? A. Angry. B. Afraid. C. Sad. D. Happy.
2. What does Dr. Smileyface teach the writer to do?
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圣才电子书 www.100xuexi.com 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 A. How to laugh.
B. How to take care of his teeth. C. To eat flowers. D. To paint his face.
3. What did Dr. Smileyface give the writer last week? A. A toy ship. B. A toy box. C. A comb. D. Flowers.
【答案及解析】
1.D 根据第一段的“Some children are afraid to go to the dentist, but not me”,以
及文章后边的内容可知,当作者去看牙医的时候是很高兴的。
2.B 根据第二段的“He also teaches me how to take care of my teeth in an
interesting way.”可知选B。
3.A 根据第二段的“Last week he gave me a toy ship”可知选A。 Passage 2
Tony Wheeler was born to travel. His father worked for an airline. For the first 16 years of his life, Wheeler and his family lived in many different countries.
In the early 1970s, Wheeler met a young woman named Maureen. They soon married. Before getting jobs, Tony and Maureen wanted to travel. They took a
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圣才电子书 www.100xuexi.com 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 year-long trip from London, through Asia, to Australia. On the trip, they visited places like India, Iran, and Afghanistan.
When Tony and Maureen arrived in Australia, people asked many questions about their trip. To answer these questions, Wheeler wrote a guidebook called Across Asia on the Cheap. The book told people about different countries’ weather, customs (风俗) ,and places to see. But unlike travel guides in the 1970s, Wheeler’s book also talked about places most tourists did not go. He also wrote about unusual things to see and do. The book was very popular.
Wheeler and Maureen started a company called Lonely Planet. They continued travel- ling. They wrote guidebooks for each place they visited. Today, 400 people work for Lonely Planet. The company has over 650 guidebooks. Wheeler still writes about travel “hot spots” (for example, Cambodia in Asia and Croatia in Europe). For more information, read the books!
1. Which trip was Tony Wheeler’s first guidebook about? A. The United Kingdom. B. From Asia to England.
C. From Australia to Afghanistan. D. From England to Australia.
2. Why did Tony Wheeler write his first guidebook? A. He needed the money. B. His wife asked him to do it.
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圣才电子书 www.100xuexi.com 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 C. Many people asked questions about his travels. D. He liked writing books.
3. How was Across Asia on the Cheap different from other travel guides? A. It talked about places most tourists did not go. B. It was longer and more expensive.
C. It told people about a country’s weather, customs, and places to see. D. It was the first guidebook about Asia. 4. Which sentence below is true?
A. Tony Wheeler still travels and writes guidebooks. B. Tony Wheeler’s first guidebook was not popular. C. After their first trip, Maureen did not travel with Tony. D. Today, Lonely Planet is still a small company.
【文章大意】本篇文章为记叙文,题材为人物传记。讲述了托尼·惠勒的家庭背景,他对旅行的热爱以及他的成就。 【答案及解析】
1.D 细节理解题。根据第二段末和第三段初可知,他们的第一本旅行指导的书是关于从英
国到澳大利亚的旅行。
2.C 细节理解题。根据第三段的第二句“To answer these questions, Wheeler wrote a
guidebook called Across Asia on the Cheap.”可知答案为C。
3.A 细节理解题。南第三段的第四句“But unlike travel guides in the 1970s, Wheeler’
s book also talked about places most tourists did not go.”可知答案为A。
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圣才电子书 www.100xuexi.com 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 4.A 细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句Wheeler still writes about travel “hot spots”
内容可知A正确。 Passage 3
Nathan Sawaya’s childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he’s been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up his highly-paid (高新的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty (自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1. 5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan’s work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in 2007, Nathan’s exhibition
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