Mrs. Green's telephone number was 2345, and the number of the cinema in her town was 2346,
so people often made a mistake and called her when they wanted the cinema. One evening the telephone
bell rang and Mrs. Green answered it. A tired man said, " At what time does your last film begin?"
      "I'm sorry," said Mrs. Green " But you have the wrong number. This is not the cinema"
      " Oh, it began twenty minutes ago?" said the man. "I'm sorry about that, good-bye."
      Mrs. Green was very surprised, so she told her husband. He laughed and said, "the man's wife
wanted to go to the cinema but he was feeling tired. So he telephoned the cinema. His wife heard him,
but she didn't hear you. Now they will stay at home this evening. And the husband will be happy."

1. People often mistook Mrs. Green's number because ______

A hers was next to the cinema's
B she likes to make friends
C people did it only for fun
D her number and the cinema's were the same

2. Mrs. Green was surprised because the tired man ___

A wanted the cinema but called a wrong number
B said something that had nothing to do with her answer
C asked her a foolish question which she refused to answer
D was angry with himself for having made a mistake

3. If the tired man's wife had heard the whole talk between her husband and Mrs. Green,
    she would have ______.

A been angry     
B gone to the cinema alone
C been happy
D shouted at Mrs. Green

4. Which of them seemed to be clever?

A Mr. Green and the tired man
B Mr. and Mrs. Green
C The tired man and his wife
D The tired man's wife

      At 50 I was the first woman to travel alone to the North Pole. But what should I do to celebrate
my 60th birthday? What else, but a journey at the opposite end of the world, Antarctica. I began my
almost 400-mile journey on November 1st, 1997,a few days before my birthday. I walked and skied
alone. My dog team were not with me to pull my sled. Another journey of challenge and danger was
about to begin.
      The first days the weather was very good. The wind was icy but not very strong and there was
bright sunshine 24 hours a day. But changes were just around the corner. On the third day I was
struggling through stormy weather and during the nest week the wind grew stronger and I found myself
spending a whole day in my tent.
      I had traveled only two hours one day when the winds increased so much that I had to put my tent
up before the winds became too strong. Within a few minutes the winds increased to a howling storm
that threatened to blow me and the tent away, but none of that happened.

1. from the text we know the writer was born on ___.

A. 1st November 1937
B. 12th November 1937
C. 22nd November 1947
D. 1st November 1957

2. Another journey of challenge and danger was about to begin. " Another journey" here means _____.

A. the travel to the North Pole.
B. another journey to Antarctica.
C. 400- mile journey on November 1st 1997.
D. a new trip that she was planning.

3. After reading the short passage, we can guess that ___.

A. the trip to the North Pole must be the same hard as that to the South Pole.
B. The trip to the Antarctica may be more dangerous than that to the Arctic
C. There was no danger though the trip to the South Pole was hard.
D. During the trip to the Antarctica, the weather, most of the time, was not so bad.

     I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish,
I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for
good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and
make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that
a person could not have a "complicated idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the
words without recognizing either its irony(嘲諷)or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to
make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have
read several times.(How, after all, could one read a book more than once?)And I included only those
books over a hundred pages in length.(Could anything shorter be a book?)
      There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an
English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books
of Western Civilization." "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality

(firmly), "these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn't ignore. I kept
the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly
understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the
introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience
and superstition(迷信)of a schoolboy,      I looked at every word of the text. And by the time I reached
the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off
my list

1. On hearing the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought _______.

A. one must read as many books as possible
B. a student should not have a complicated idea
C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books
D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

2. While at high school, the writer _______.

A. had plans for reading    
B. learned to educate himself
C. only read books over 100 pages    
D. read only one book several times

3. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _______.

A. explain why it was included in the list
B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list
C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand
D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

4. The writer provides two book lists to _______.

A. show how he developed his point of view
B. tell his reading experience at high school
C. introduce the two persons' reading methods
D. explain that he read many books at high school

     Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our
environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To
some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius
out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment
will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits
of person's intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his
environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
      It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the
blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligence. Thus if we take
two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be
completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as
intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar
intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
      Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might
send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would
soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth
plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with
each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.

1. The writer is in favor of the view that man's intelligence is given to him________.

A. at birth                            
B. through education
C. both at birth and through education      
D. neither at birth nor through education

2. If a child is born with low intelligence, he can_________.

A. become a genius
B. still become a genius if he should be given special education
C. not reach his intelligence in his life.
D. reach his intelligence limits in rich surroundings

3. The example of the twins going to a university and to a factory separately shows_________.

A. the importance of their intelligence    
B. the role of environment on intelligence
C. the importance of their positions      
D. the part that birth plays

4. The best title of the passage can be _________.

A. Surroundings    
B. Effect of education
C. Dependence on Environment    
D. Intelligence

     I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I felt in my pockets to see if there were
any cigarettes, which had escaped their search. I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could
hardly get it to my lips. But I had no matches(火柴), they had taken those. I looked through the bars at my jailer (獄卒). He did not make eye contact with me. I called out to him: "Have you got a light?" He looked at me, shrugged and came over to light my cigarette. As he came close and lit the cigarette, his eyes
inadvertently(無意)locked with mine. At that moment, I smiled. I don't know why I did that. Perhaps it
was nervousness, perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very hard not to
smile. Anyway, I smiled. I know he didn't want to, but my smile leaped (=went) through the bars and
generated a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.  
     I kept smiling at him, now considering him as a person and not just a jailer. "Do you have kids?" he asked. "Yes, here, here." I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled (摸) for the pictures of my family. He,
too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I was scared that I'd never see my family again, never have the chance to see them
grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. Suddenly, without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently
led me out and set me free.  "My life was saved by a smile." Yes, the smile - the unaffected, unplanned,
natural connection between people. I really believed that if that part of you and that part of me could
recognize (認可) each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We couldn't have hate or scare.

1. The true statement of the following according to the passage is _______

A. when I was smiling to the jailer, he didn't smile.
B. the jailer was moved by what I said about my family and kids.
C. the jailer set me out of the jail as long as I kept silent over it.
D. if we could recognize each other, we must be good friends.

2. Which of the following do you agree with most?  

A. The jailer helped him because he was a friend of the author.
B. If there is understanding there would be no hate or fear.
C. A picture of one's family is helpful in time of trouble.
D. The writer had no chance to see his children again.

3. The underlined word "generated" probably means _______. 

A. produced                  
B. forced                
C. escaped      
D. showed

4. If you are asked to give the passage a title, ______ could be the best of the following. 

A. jailer and a prisoner        
B. The conversation between the souls
C. A friend or an enemy        
D. The power of a smile