1、閱讀理解The En glish are ofte n con sidered as unfrien dly people who don't talk to stra ngers, but notLondon taxi drivers. I once asked a cabbie to describe his life to me and he did n't stop talk ing un tilI arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one o

2、f them:“ Some very strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had a little dog with her. Whe n we got to her house she found that she'd lost her key. So, I waited in the c ab with the dog while she climbed up the win dow.”"I waited and wai

3、tedAfter half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb up the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought that I was trying to rob the house! Luckily, the woma n came dow nstairs, she'd gone to sle

4、ep and forgotte n about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare（車資，車費(fèi)）.”1n the writer ' s opondnn taxi drivers are.A. unfrien dlyB. talkativeC. helpfulD. stra nge eno ugh2. From the passage we guess that the writer.A. is the driver of the taxiB. of

5、te n travels by taxiC. is a foreig ner visit ing LondonD. lives in London3. What does the un derli ned word cabbie” mean in this passage?A. Con ductor.B. Stra nger.C. Taxi driver.D. Porter.4. The man was wait ing outside the woma n's house because.A. he bega n to like the woma n and her dog at t

6、he first sightB. the woma n had not paid himC. he wan ted to know what would happe n whe n the police cameD. he was trying to go on talk ing with herBIt does n ' m atter when or how much a pers on sleeps, but every one n eeds some rest to stay alive. That ' s what all doctors thought, until

7、they heard about AI Herpin. AI Herpin, it was said, n ever slept, Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this stra nge man themselves.AI Herpin was 90 years old whe n the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thoughtfor sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him

8、 and watched every moveme nt he made. But they were surprised . Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they n ever saw Herpin sleep ing , In fact, he did not even own a bed. He n ever n eeded one.The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and readi

9、ngn ewspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this stra nge con ti nu ous sleepless ness. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother hav ing bee n injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reas on?No one c

10、ould be sure.Herpin died at the age of 94.5. The main idea of this passage is that.A. a person was found who actually didn' t need any sleepB. large nu mbers of people do not n eed sleepC. every one n eeds some sleep to stay aliveD. people can live Ion ger by trying not to sleep6. The doctors ca

11、me to visit Herpi n , expect ing to.A. cure him of his sleepless nessB. find that his sleepless ness was not really trueC. find a way to free people from the n eed of sleep ingD. find out why some old people didn' t need any sleep7. After watch ing him closely, the doctors came to believe that A

12、L Herpin.A. was too old to n eed any sleepB. ofte n slept in a chairC. n eeded no sleep at allD. n eeded some kind of sleep8. One reason that might explain Herpin' s sleeplessness was.A. that he hadn' t got a bedB. that he had gradually got rid of the sleep ing habitC. his mother ' s inj

13、ury before he was bornD. his magnificent physical con diti on9. AI Herpin ' s condition could be regarded as.A. a com mon oneB. one that could be curedC. very healthyD. a rare oneCCountry music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the Un ited States today because it is about simple but s

14、trong human feelings and events-love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life, stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated（ 復(fù) 雜）,it is good to hear music about ordinary people.Country music, sometimes called cou ntry-western, comes from two kinds of

15、 music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite States. The other is traditi onal cowboy music from the west. The sin gers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said country music was low

16、class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps （軍營(yíng)）in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it b

17、ecame popular all over the coun try.Today country music is also popular everywhere in the Un ited States and Can ada in small tow ns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1,200 radio statio ns broadcast country music twen ty-four hours a day. En

18、 glish stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own Ianguages. The music that started with cowboys and poor souther ners is now popular all over the world.53. It can be lear ned from the passage that country music comes fromA. the Northeast and MidwestB. factories and army camps in the SouthC. the Appalachia n Mountains and the WestD. real-life stories in small tow ns10. Before World War II country music was popular mainly in .A. the southB. the