Ⅲ．阅读理解：
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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A large number of women in Western European courtiers wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in West Germany.
“Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world,”said Dr. James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study.
Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in“Women’s Liberation”“I don’t wish that I were a man,”she says,“and I don’t think many women do. But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones and open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there…or engineers or scientists?”
36．A lot of women in ______ wish that they were born men.
A．European countries B．the West
C．West Europe D．West Germany
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37．“It is still a men’s world.”means“______”.
A．There’re more men than women in the world
B．There’re more men scientists or engineers than women in the world
C．Women cannot live without men
D．Women have not been given the same chance as men
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38．Anne Harper considers that women should ______.
A．be really liberated B．live a better life
C．be well paid D．get better jobs than men
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39．Anne Harper doesn’t wish that she were a man because she ______.
A．has got a very good job
B．believes in“Women Liberation”
C．does the work that a man can’t do
D．isn’t looked down upon by anyone
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B
Tom, a student who does computer studies at Texas University, found his own parents with the help of Internet (因特网). The news got around soon and many of his friends came to share his happiness. Some of them even asked him to help them find jobs on the Internet.
Before he turned to Internet for help, Tom had spend one year looking for his parents who left him 26 years ago when he was a baby. Using knowledge on computer and network (网络), Tom found out his birth information and sent a notice to Internet in hope of (怀着……希望) finding his parents. Only one day later, Tom’s dream came true.
When Tom flew to Los Angeles to meet his father, Stephen, they embraced each other lovingly and warmly. They enjoyed the family meeting. Later on Mother’s Day, Tom met his mother Silvia.
Three years ago Stephen himself also tried hard to look for his son but his hard try ended in nothing. Tom’s try on the Internet has turned to be happy ending.
40．How long did it take Tom to find his parents by Internet?
A．Only one day. B．About one year.
C．3 years. D．26 years.
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41．Before he found his parents Tom had to _______.
A．make a lot of friends B．fly to Los Angeles
C．send a notice to Internet every day D．find out his own birth information
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42．The underlined word“share”in the reading means “ ________”.
A．to ask about B．to give back
C．to have with others D．to study together
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43．Which of the following can we not know from the reading?
A．Tom’s birth information. B．Where Tom’s father lives.
C．Why Tom’s parents left him. D．What Tom does.
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C
Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. He knows what he wants, and his purpose is to find it and buy it, the price is a less important consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it, the salesman immediately produces it and the business of trying it on is done at once. All being well, the bargain (交易) can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone’s satisfaction.
For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants. Then the salesman tries to sell the customer (顾客) something else he offers the nearest he can to the thing required. He usually says,“I know this jacket is not the style (式样) you want, sir, but would you like to try it on for size? It happens to be the colour you wanted.”Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual reply is:“This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”
Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? She does so in the opposite way. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only“having a look round”. She is always open to persuasion, indeed she considers of great importance what the saleswoman tells her, even what her friends tell her. She will try on any number of things. Highest in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone think suits her. Most women have an excellent sense (判断力) of value when they buy clothes. They are always trying to find an unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one counter (柜台) to another before selecting the dresses she wants.
44．When a man is buying clothes, he _____.
A．puts price before quality
B．choose things that others think suitable for him
C．does not mind much the price he has to pay for the right things
D．buys good quality things, so long as they do not cost much
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45．What does the passage tell us about the woman shoppers for clothes?
A．They welcome suggestions from anyone.
B．Women seldom consider buying cheap clothes.
C．Women often buy things without thinking.
D．They listen to advice but never take it.
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46．The most obvious difference between men and women shoppers is ______.
A．that men do not try clothes on in a shop while women do
B．that women bargain for their clothes and men don’t
C．that women do their shopping standing up but men do theirs sitting down
D．the time they take over buying clothes
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D
Paul and I live in the same building. His room is on the sixth floor but mine is on the fifth. He is very careless and sometimes he gets into trouble.
Last Friday afternoon the young man and his friends went to spend the weekend on a wild island. They could swim, fish, play the guitar (吉他) and sleep in the quiet place at night. They enjoyed themselves there. On the third morning they decided to get back to the land. But their boat hit a rock and soon went down. With the villagers’ help, they swam to the bank. Luckily none of them was hurt. They took a taxi and half an hour later they arrived at our town, but it was two in the night. The young man was hungry and thirsty. He wished to get home as soon as possible. Since something was wrong with the lift, he had to go up the stairs (楼梯). He stopped by my door and brought out a key. Of course he could not open the door. Half an hour passed but failed. He became angry and shouted, “I’ll cut you down with a knife.”
The noise woke me up and I opened the door. I understood at once what was happening and said,“You’re trying to open a wrong door, Paul!”
“Sorry, I can’t agree with you. Charlie!”said the young man.“It’s my room. You’ve entered it by mistake!”
47．Paul and his friends enjoyed themselves on the island because _______.
A．it was very quiet there
B．there were many fish there
C．they could forget all the trouble
D．they could do what wanted
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48．Paul couldn’t open the door because ______.
A．it wasn’t his room
B．he couldn’t find the right key
C．he didn’t find the keyhole
D．he was too hungry to do it
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49．Which of the following is wrong?
A．Paul thought he did right.
B．Paul didn’t think he did right
C．Paul stopped by a door on the fifth floor,
D．Paul thought he had reached the sixth floor.
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50．What can we learn from the passage?
A．Never take a wrong key.
B．Be careful when going out.
C．More haste, less speed.
D．Be friendly to your neighbours.
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E
Everybody knows hamburger is a very popular American food. However, people in the United States learned to make hamburgers from Germans, and Germans got the idea from Russia.
In the thirteenth century the Tartar people from Central Asia moved into Russia and parts of Europe. They fought the Russians and won. They ate something like hamburger meat, but it was raw (生的). This raw meat was beef, goat meat or horse meat. Soon the Russians started to eat raw meat, too. Germans from Hamburg and other northern cities learned to eat this food from the Russians. However, they added salt, pepper (胡椒), a raw egg, and then cooked it.
Between 1830 and 1900 thousands of Germans went to live in the United States. They took the hamburger with them. People called it hamburger steak (牛排).
In 1904 at the World’s Fair in St. Louis (a city on the Mississippi River), a man from Texas sold hamburger steak in a roll (a kind of bead). Then people could eat it with their hands, like a sandwich. This was the first real hamburger －the hamburgers we eat today.
Today some people still like to eat raw beef. They call it“steak tartar”.
51．From the text, we can see that hamburgers had been a popular food for ______.
A．about 600 years B．over 700 years
C．more than 800 years D．only 100 years
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52．Which of the following shows the difference between the Germans’ hamburgers and the Russians’ hamburgers?
A．The Germans’ hamburger meat was cooked and the Russians’ was raw.
B．The Russians’ hamburgers had all kinds of meat in them and the Germans’ had none.
C．The Germans’ hamburgers were mixed with salt, pepper and raw eggs.
D．The Russians’ hamburgers could be eaten with hands, but the Germans’ couldn’t.
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53．Today some people still eat raw beef, just like ______.
A．what the Germans used to eat
B．what the Russians could be interested in
C．what the Americans have made
D．what the Tartar people ate at first
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54．Where is it that people enjoy the first real hamburgers?
A．In Russia. B．In Germany.
C．In America. D．In Central Asia.
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55．What is the text mainly about?
A．The development of the hamburgers.
B．The origin (由来) of the hamburgers.
C．The difference of the hamburgers.
D．The making of the hamburgers.
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