A. see each other after a long time and are still friendssay “thank you” to each othernicely

B. trust and

C. trust each other and treat each other

D. do not always have to tell each other truth

14)

Why does the author mention two TV shows about friendship?

A. Friends need to be loyal to each other.commitment and sacrifice.

B. Friendship means

C. Friends shouldn’t keep secret to each other.

D. Friendship is becoming more important nowadays. 15)

What can you infer from the passage?

A. Nothing is more important than friendship.new family in many ways.friendship.参考答案：

11) A 12) C 13) C 14) D 15) B

Can you imagine life without French fries? Potatoes are very popular today. They are the fourth most important crop in the world, after wheat, rice, and corn. But in the past, potatoes were not always popular. People in Europe started to eat them only 200 years ago!

In the 1500s, the Spanish went to South America to look for gold. There, they found people eating potatoes for 7000 years! The Spanish brought the potato back to Europe with them. But people in Europe did not like this strange vegetable. Some people thought that if you ate potatoes, your skin would look like the skin of a potato. Other people could not believe that you ate the underground part of the plant, so they ate the leaves instead. This made them

B. Friends are just like a

C. People should help each other to establish

D. Friends are those who can help when they are needed.

sick because there is poison in the leaves. Others grew potatoes for their flowers. At one time in France, potato flowers were one of the most expensive flowers.

Around 1780, the people of Ireland started to eat potatoes. They found that potatoes had many advantages. The potato grew on poor land, and it grew well in their cold and rainy climate. It gave more food than any other plant, and it needed little work. All they had to do was to plant the potatoes, and then they could do other work on the farm. On a small piece of land, a farmer could grow enough potatoes to feed his family. A person could eat eight to ten pounds of potatoes a day, with some milk or cheese, and be very healthy. Soon, potatoes became the main food in Ireland. In 1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in Ireland. Two million people died of hunger. Many Irish who did not die came to the United States at this time.

In other parts of Europe, people did not want to change their old food habits. Some preferred to die of hunger rather than eat potatoes. Today, many countries have their own potato dishes. Germans eat potato salad, the United States has the baked potato, and the French invented French fries. 16)

Which statement is true?

A. Potatoes are only popular in France.popular today.

B. Potatoes are not very

C. Potatoes are the most important crop in the world.

D. Potatoes were not very popular in the past. 17)

In the 1500s, people in Europe ________.

A. found gold and potatoes from Perupeople’s skin

B. found potatoes could harm

D. found

C. found potatoes were strange vegetables

potatoes and invented French fries

18)

Only in about 1780 did people start to ________.

A. grow potatoes for their flowersC. eat potatoes in Ireland

B. go to Peru to look for gold

D. eat eight to ten pounds of potatoes a day

19)

What is one of the advantages of potatoes?

A. They grow well in cold and dry weather.productivity compared with others.

B. They have higher

C. They can be grown with other plants.

D. They can be eaten along with milk or cheese.

20)

What statement best illustrates the main idea of the passage?

A. How potatoes become popular.vegetable.

B. Why potatoes are a good

D. How potatoes

C. Why potatoes are healthy and tasty.

have been consumed. 参考答案：

16) D 17) C 18) C 19) B 20) A

When looking for love, people may go to some extreme lengths. They might go on blind dates set up by family and friends. They might write personal ads to place in newspapers. Or they might use a computer to help them in their search for a soul mate by joining an online dating service. Some people have even tried to find their perfect match through game shows on television. Many of these TV dating shows, including The Bachelor and Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire, have proved to have millions of viewers watching each week to find out which of the contestants will find true love.

Of all these game shows, perhaps the one with the most unexpected ending was Mr. Right, which was shown in England in 2002. On the show, a bachelor, thirty-five-year-old Lance Gerrard-Wright, dated 15 women to find the one who was his ideal partner. For seven weeks on the show, Gerrard-Wright, took turns going on dates with each of the women, taking them to expensive

restaurants and exotic locations. He even met the women’s families and introduced them to his own. Then at the end of each show, he would choose between one and three of the contestants, with whom he had felt the least compatible, and say goodbye to them.

At one point during the series, one contestant volunteered to leave because she said she didn’t find him attractive. After two dates she said she had had enough, and she couldn’t see it working, “He wasn’t my cup of tea.” In another show the woman he was on a date with burst into tears when he called her by another contestant’s name. “You called me by another girl’s name. I can’t believe you did that. I really liked you,” she sobbed. But in the final show, the woman he eventually chose decided she didn’t want to marry him after all. “I think you’ve chosen me because you have to choose someone,” she said. Maybe this was because she already knew he had fallen in love with the show’s host!

After leaving the show, Gerrard-Wright and the show’s host Jonsson tied the knot in Sweden. Has Jonsson finally found Mr. Right? Only time will tell. But none of the guests at the wedding could deny the happiness in the couple’s eyes as the bride and groom left the wedding ceremony. 21)

What is this passage mainly about?

A. How a famous couple met and got married.meet a husband or wife.

B. The best way to

C. Why the show Mr. Right was a big hit.

D. How to act on a date with a stranger.

22)

“When looking for love, people may go to some extreme lengths” means ________.

A. People resort to traditionally considered unusual ways to look for love.B. Love has become less traditional than before.find love through extreme ways.but more extreme.

C. It is not difficult to

D. Modern way of dating makes it easier

23)

What happened after seven weeks of doing the show?

A. All of the women won prizes.marry him.

B. Lance asked one of the women to

C. One of the women on the show started to cry.

D. Jonsson asked Lance to marry her. 24)

Which of the following is true during the series?

A. Lance went on dates with one woman each time.candidates traveled abroad with Lance.dating each other.

B. The

C. Lance and Jonsson started

D. The women met Lance’s family.

25)

What does the author want to tell us through the passage?

A. TV dating shows are a good way to find true love.shows are the most efficient among other media.getting more interested in TV dating shows.through contesting with other contestants. 参考答案：

21) C 22) A 23) B 24) C 25) D

B. TV dating

C. More women are

D. It’s hard to find true love

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Directions： There are some blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.

These days it is very common for young men to give flowers to young women when they are in love, but this hasn’t always been the custom. In the 1700s in Turkey, it was quite 26) popular for people in love to secretly send each other baskets full of strange things. 27) Usually , an old woman who sold