阅读理解（下）

（１）

It’s easier to downhill than to climb uphill, so it’s easier to fall into bad habits than into good ones.

Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little without one’s being aware of their danger. Schoolboys first pick up little bad habits in school and on the street. When they cannot

Write their lessons, they copy from their schoolmates. If they see bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. If they see their friends gambling, they want to gamble. When they get bigger, the habits become stronger and stranger, so that they can no longer get rid of them. From copying, they learn to steal; from gambling, they learn to cheat. At last they become distrusted by every. How necessary it is that we get rid of the bad habits at the beginning! Or they should overcome us in the end!

1.       Bad habits don’t come suddenly, do they? _____.

A Yes, they do          B No, they don’t

C Yes, they don’t         D No, they do

2.       Some boy students fall into bad habits____.

A in school            B at home

C on the street          D both A and C

3.       The boys may steal from _____.

  A copying   B gambling    C writing   D their parent

4.       It’s____ to fall into bad habits, but____ to get rid of them.

A easy, hard   B hard, easy   C easy, easy   D hard, hard

5.       The writer wants to tell us____.

A to steal for money     B to get rid of bad habits at the beginning   C to go uphill       D A, B and C

(２)

The New Year’s Eve party was going on when the bell rang. A tall man opened the door and came in. Nobody knew him, but the host went over and took him in. The man sat there happily for an hour and drunk. Then he said, “invited me to this party。I don’t know you, or anyone else here. My wife and I wanted to go out in our car, but one of your friend’s cars was in front of our gate, so I came here to find him, and my wife is still waiting in our car!”

1.       When did the story happen?

A At 7:00   B In December   C On New Year’s Eve   D When the bell rang

2.       The “bell” here means the _____.

A time bell   B doorbell   C church bell   D bell for class

3.       The host went to meet and took him in because he took the tall man for ____.

A one of his friends      B his brother

C his classmate          D his teacher

4.       The tall man’s wife waited in the car for _____.

A a long time   B two hours   C a half hour   D an hour

5.       At last, the host might be a little_____.

A happy   B surprised   C worried    D afraid

                (３)

The population count in China has ended. Population counters now will spend the next few weeks examining the count to make sure it is correct. The final count is expected to be announced by the end of August. 5000,000 census takes have spent the past ten days talking to members of every family in China. They have collected information on age, employment, educational level of every person in China. China’s population is believed to be 1000,000,000 people. This is about 20% of all the people in the world.

1.       This passage is ___.

A a letter   B a piece of news   C a story   D a diary

2.       By the end of August, the population counters_____.

A are talking to members of every family

B will begin the census   C only have finished the count

D will be able to have the final conut

3.       It will take them____ to examine the count.

A about three weeks     B about ten days

C about a year          D about several months

4.       1000,000,000 means_____.

A one thousand million     B one million

C one billion            D ten billion

5.       The population count in China is ______.

A busy and dangerous     B difficult and slow

C pleased and interesting    D important and careful

(４)

Once an old man went to see a doctor. The doctor looked him over carefully and said,“Medicine won’t help you. You must have a good rest. Go to bed early, drink milk, walk a lot and smoke one cigar a day. Go to the country place for a mouth.”

After a month the man came to the doctor again,“How are you ?” said the doctor,“I’m glad to see you again. You look much younger.” “OH！Doctor，I feel quite well now，” said the man ，“I had a good rest。I went to bed early，drank a of milk and walked a lot。You r advice certainly helped me， but you told me to smoke one cigar a day almost killed me first。It’s no joke to start smoking at my age!’’

1.       The doctor told the man ____.

A to go to bed early         B to drink milk

C to walk a lot             D Both A, B and C

2.       Which of the following sentences is true?

A The doctor told the man to visit a beautiful city of country for a month.

B The doctor didn’t tell him what to do.

C After a month, the old man felt better.

D The old man was younger than before after a month.

3.       The doctor’s words were _____ for the old man’s health.

A bad   B good     C well     D strong

4.       The doctor wanted the old man______.

A to get worse          B to smoke less than before

C to help him           D to start smoking

5.       From what the old man said at last, we know_____.

A one cigar a day was really helpful to him

B one cigar a day was better than before

C the old man was not a smoker at all

D smoking made him feel better than before