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C. Humor was one of Mr Evans’ characters.
D. Mr Evans could not really enjoy the trip because of his age.
B
A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin(顽童) was walking around the shining car. “Is this your car, Paul?” he asked.
Paul answered,\Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.\The boy was surprised.\You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you anything. Boy, I wish…\hesitated. Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.
“I wish,” the boy went on. “that I could be a brother like that.\Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then
he said again, \
“Oh yes, I'd love that.” After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said. “Paul, would you mind driving in front of my house?”
Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?”the boy asked.
He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little. crippled (残疾) brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.
“There he is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day I’m going to give you one just like it… Then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas window that I've been trying to tell you about.” Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his cat. The shining-eyed elder brother climbed in beside him and three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride. 24. The street urchin was very surprised when ________.
A. Paul received an expensive car B. he saw the shining car C. Paul told him about the car D. he was walking around the car 25. From the story we can see the urchin ________.
A. wished he could have a brother like Paul's brother B. wanted Paul's brother to give him a car C. wished to give his brother a car D. wished Paul could be a brother like that
26. The urchin asked Paul to stop his car in front of his house ________.
A. to tell his brother about his wish B. to show he had a rich friend C. to let his brother ride in the car D. to show his neighbors the big car
27. The best title of the story is____________________.
A. A Christmas Present B. A Brother like That
C. A Street Urchin D. An Unforgettable Holiday Ride
C
What are you going to do with your old computer after you buy a new one? You have paid high price for the old computer, but how much do you think it is worth now? Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is to throw it away, because few people want to buy an old computer. What do many people do when they try to sell their old computers? Foolishly, they take into account its original cost and then reduce the price according to the age of the computer---rather like a second-hand car. They are wrong. They forget that new computers are becoming cheaper every day, making old computers almost worthless. In 1995, for example, a good computer cost over $4,000. Ten years later its owner would e lucky to get $ 400.
You must be careful about buying a second hand computer. The microchips in a computer may last a long time, but the hard disk will not. It will probably cost more to replace the hard disk with a new one than the computer itself is worth. So saving or repairing an old computer is like building a car from spare parts It is far cheaper to buy a new car.
One magazine recently listed some suggestions. One suggestion was to give it to charity. The final one was to keep it somewhere and hope that it would become a collector’s item in fifteen or twenty years. But in fifteen or twenty years there may be so many old computers that they will be worthless.
Whatever you decide to do with an old computer will not change the fact that it will be useless soon. The world of computers is quickly changing and eventually all computers will not only be
integrated with video telephones and run DVD ROM disks, but also be able to perform many tasks which yet we cannot even imagine. All these use will require much more advanced computers today go to the garbage can of the next century. 28. According to the writer, if a computer is old, you’d better____________. A. sell it. B. use its spare parts again B. put it in a safe place for the future D. throw it away.
29. The writer believes that it will cost far more to repair an old computer than to___________. A. buy a new computer. B. buy a new car.
C. repair and old car. D. build a car form spare parts. 30. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text? A. It is not a good idea to buy a second hand computer.
B. if we store our old computers, they must be valuable in twenty years. C. As the technology develops, computers will perform more tasks. D. Many people don’t know the true value of their old computers. 31. What does the writer mean by the last sentence? A. Most computers are not yet advanced at all.
B. Most advanced computers today will eventually be out-of-day. C. In the future advanced computers will be in garbage cans. D. There are not enough garbage cans for old computers at present.
D
According to decades-long research, women who took low daily doses of aspirin had a reduced death rate, especially from heart disease.
The research, based on data from a major trial that has tracked almost 80,000 women since 1976, found that women who reported using aspirin on a regular basis had a 25 percent lower risk of death from any cause than women who didn’t take the drug.
The risk of death from cardiovascular(心血管的) disease was 38 percent lower for aspirin users, and there was also a 12 percent reduction in cancer deaths that took effect after a decade of aspirin use, the researchers found in their report based on the Nurses’ Health Study.
However, an accompanying editorial (社论)in the journal cautioned that the results were open to debate and far from definitive.
The dissenting (持异议的) editorial was based on results of an earlier trial by the Women’s Health Study, which followed almost 40,000 women for 11 years and found no reduction in overall deaths. Therefore, the new findings “cannot overcome the accumulated evidence that aspirin is not particularly effective for the primary prevention of death from cardiovascular disease in women.”
“This is a complicated issue,” said Dr. Andrew T. Chan, leading author of the new report. “We understand that aspirin has potential health benefits, but who would aspirin therapy(疗法) be appropriate for?” There are “areas of disagreement that need further study” before that question can be answered, Chan said. But there is information from the two large studies and other trials that can help guide women and their physicians, he said. And anyone who is thinking about daily aspirin “should really talk with doctors about the benefits and risks.” 32. The new report clearly benefits the women suffering A. cancer B. aspirin side effects C. lose of memory D. heart disease
33. Which of the following questions hasn’t been solved according to Dr. Chan? A. Who is proper for this treatment?
B. Which of the two researches is really reliable? C. Who will do the further study in this area? D. Whether aspirin is beneficial for health?
34. We know from the last paragraph that women who trust the treatment should A. be very careful about it B. start immediately with the help of their physicians C. concentrate on the benefits instead of the risks D. turn to their physicians for only the benefit it has 35. What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To promote the new aspirin therapy to women. B. To draw a final conclusion on the debate. C. To introduce two controversial researches. D. To help women live longer and healthier. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）