高中英语阅读理解

通读对话，然后选择可以填入相应空白处的五个答案。
A：Good morning. ____
B：Yes, please. Could you introduce me a nice place to see over the weekend?
A：OK, Qingdao is a nice place to visit. ____ The weather is neither hot nor cold.
B：Sounds good. ____
A：You can get there by train.
B：Shall I visit places of interest by bus in Qingdao?
A：Sure. ____
B：Really perfect. ____
A：280 yuan each person. It includes train tickets, park tickets, hotel and meals.
B：Well. It’s nice. I’d like to book the tour for two.

A．It’s the right time to go there.	B．Which place are you going to visit?
C．How can I get there?	D．Hope you will have a great time there.

E. How much does it cost?    F. Can I help you, madam?
G. Our sightseeing bus will take you around the city.

How to apply (申请) for a free mailbox (邮箱)? First you have to connect to the Internet and go to the homepage of the ICP providing free mailboxes. Then you will find an icon (图标), an agreement about the rules for using the free mailbox will appear. If you want to go, click the icon “I agree”. Then you have to fill in a form about your basic personal data, and the name and PIN (密码) of the mailbox. The PIN is the key to the mailbox. After finishing these, you will get a mailbox like this：your name @ mail server (for example：[e-mail]. “tvguide” is the name of the mailbox, and “mail.cctv.com.cn” is the name of the mail server.). The mailbox is separated (分隔) into two parts by a separator “@”, which is read as “at”. The former part is the name of the mailbox. The latter is the domain name (域名) of the mail server. All mails to you will be received by the server and put into your mailbox. You can read these mails on any computer on the Internet in the world, if you have the name and PIN of the mailbox.
If you want to send or receive an e-mail, you should first ____ .

A．apply for a mailbox	B．buy a computer
C．go to the post office	D．fill in a form

When you get a FREE mailbox, you can send an e-mail ____ .

A．by paying some money	B．to anyone
C．without paying money	D．anywhere

The mailbox’s name in the e-mail address “[e-mail].” is ____ .

A．ew

B．ew.com.cn

C．com.cn

D．editor

The writer mainly wants to tell us how to ____ in this passage.

A．send a letter by e-mail	B．read the e-mail on computers in the world
C．get a free mailbox	D．find out one’s e-mail address

We can find the similar information in the book “____”.

A．Who Moved My Cheese	B．Surfing on the Internet
C．Bill Gates’ Story	D．Harry Potter

Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how languages first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the languages of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about 3,000 languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by many millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.
There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original (最初的) language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 yeas ago.
Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. In time some even died out completely. About 1,000 years ago, English was a little-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.
If a language has a large number of speakers or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of speakers. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China can’t understand speakers from other parts.
The first paragraph mainly tells us that ____ .

A．most people in the world speak Chinese

B．there are thousands of languages in the world today

C．man has much knowledge about languages

D．some people know several languages

According to the passage, most European and Indian languages ____ .

A．will soon die out completely	B．were once a relative of English
C．are no longer spoken	D．come from the same family

According to the passage, ____ has the most speakers.

A．Chinese

B．English

C．Spanish

D．German

According to the passage, ____ seems to have changed a lot.

A．German

B．English

C．Spanish

D．Chinese

The underlined word dialect in the last paragraph probably means ____ .

A．a special language spoken by Chinese

B．the sign used by the Chinese people in a special area

C．the difference between the old and today’s Chinese

D．the form of a language used in one part of the country

Astronomy (天文学) is the oldest science known to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about heavens (天堂). But the six planets that he could see with his eyes alone limited man.
The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size, color, and brightness of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars move as the seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens.
Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Until there were telescopes (望远镜), man did not know much about the moon. He did not know that the planet called Saturn (土星) had rings around it. His sight was so limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Pluto (冥王星), the last of the nine planets to be discovered was seen until 1930.
Before the spectroscopes (分光镜), man didn’t know what kind of gas was in the sun or other stars, without radio telescopes (射电望远镜), we did not know that radio noise came from far in space.
Today, astronomy is a growing science. We have learned more in the past fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.
Thousands of years ago, man watched ____ with his eyes.

A．the moon

B．the stars

C．the universe

D．all the planets

When the Greeks watched the stars, they could ____ .

A．know what the stars were made of	B．not see their places in the sky
C．help themselves study the heavens	D．watch the stars move as the seasons changed

Until there were ____ , man knew very little about the moon.

A．telescopes

B．spectroscopes

C．radio telescopes

D．spaceships

People didn’t know about Pluto until ____ .

A．the 1700s

B．2,000 years ago

C．1930

D．thousands of years ago

____ people began to do research on astronomy.

A．50 years ago

B．90 years ago

C．In the early 1700s

D．Over 2,000 years ago

  Vienna——In spite of Iraq’s decision to stop oil deliveries, the 11- nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries（OPEC）will not increase production to make up the shortfall, ministers decided Tuesday in Vienna.
The 11 oil ministers decided to meet again on July 3 to discuss the effects of the Iraq temporary stop. The organization’s president, Charkid Kheria of Algeria, said after the meeting that stocks were high and prices were stable, so quota increases were not necessary.
The E.U. Commission has expressed concern about Iraq’s output stop. A speaker said OPEC had to take all possible measures to keep or lower the oil price.
Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali Al-Nuaimi had earlier said there would not be any shortfall of oil in the market. The organization had already taken steps to fill the gap, he said. OPEC Secretary General Ali Rodriguez added that the period of Iraq’s output stop was not known, so other exporters were not going to lift quotas yet. If the market was destabilized（使……动摇）, a suitable response could be made.
Iraq on Monday stopped shipments of crude oil to protest against the U.N. Security Council’s decision to extend the oil-for-food programme by only a month, instead of the normal six-month renewal. Just before the Vienna meeting, oil prices had gone up, with a barrel of OPEC crude oil selling for 27.05 dollars, up from 26.81 dollars last Friday. North sea oil was at 29.26 dollars Monday evening.
OPEC wants the oil price to stay within a margin of 22 to 28 dollars and achieved that with cuts in January and March that reduced 2.5 million barrels per day off quotas（配额）.
Iraq made the decision to stop oil deliveries because ___________.

A．oil price is too low in international market.

B．The U.N. Secretary Council has decided to shorten the time of extension of the oil-for-food programme

C．Many oil wells were destroyed during the war in the late 1980s

D．It couldn’t get enough money to develop its economy

The attitude the E.U. Commission took towards Iraq’s output stop is ________.

A．active	B．concerned
C．cold	D．surprised

The underlined words“The organization”here refers to ________.

A．OPEC	B．the E.U. Commission
C．Vienna	D．WTO

The main idea of the passage is ________.

A．the oil prices in the world were stable though Iraq has stopped oil deliveries

B．OPEC has controlled the oil price to stay within a margin of 22 to 28 dollars

C．OPEC will not increase oil production to make up the shortfall that caused by Iraq

D．Oil is connected with people’s daily life

The 11 oil ministers decided to meet on July 3 so that _________.

A．they can persuade Iraq to continue oil production

B．they can have a talk with the U.N. Security Council

C．they can have a discussion about the effects of Iraq’s temporary output stop

D．they can make up their minds to increase oil production

Most young architects ----particularly those in big cities ----can only dream about working in a building of their own. And marking that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want, which is exactly what happened to David Yocum and his partner, Brain Bell. Their building is a former automobile electrical –parts firm in Atlanta. Form the outside, it looks too old, even something horrible, but open the door and you are in a wide, open courtyard, lined on three sides with rusting(生锈的) walls.
In 2000, Yocum and Bell found this building in the city’s West End. Built in 1947, the structure had been abandoned years earlier and the roof of the main building had fallen down. But the price was right, so Yocum bought it. He spent eight months of his off-hours on demolition(拆除), pulling rubbish out through the roof, because it was too dangerous to go inside the building, The demolition was hard work, but it gave him time to think about what he wanted to do, and “to treasure what was there – the walls, the rust, the light,” Yocum said.” Every season, more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops. It’s like an art installation(装置) in there-a slow-motion show.”
Since the back building had been constructed without windows, an all-glass front was added to the building to give it a view of the courtyard, and skylights were installed in the roof. The back of the building is a working area and a living room for Yocum and his wife. A sort of buffer(缓冲) zone between the front and the back contains a bathroom, a kitchen and a mechanical room, and the walls that separate these zones have openings that allow views through to the front of the studio and the courtyard beyond.
Yocum and Bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from decoration of their building, focusing on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work. It has also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less.
According to the passage, it is      for most young architects in big cities to work in a building of their own.

A．easy

B．unnecessary

C．unrealistic

D．common

Yocum bought the old building because  __.

A．it was a bargain to him	B．it was still in good condition
C．it was located in the city center	D．it looked attractive from the outside

Working on the old building, Yocum and Bell＿.

A．pulled rubbish out through the roof	B．removed the skylights from the bathroom
C．presented a slow–motion show in an art gallery
D．built a kitchen at the back part of the old building

It can be inferred from the passage that Yocum and Bell __.

A．benefited a lot from pulling down the roof	B．turned more old buildings into art galleries
C．got inspiration from decorating their old building
D．paid more attention to the outside of the gallery

The main idea of the passage is that __.

A．people can learn a lot from their failures

B．it is worthwhile to spend money on an old building

C．people should not judge things by their appearance

D．creative people can make the best of what they have

My destination is the River Walk, one of the most popular places in all of Texas. In the first half of 20^th century, to control flooding, the city fathers began redirecting the San Antonio River. They built a network of canals that pass through the downtown area. At nearly every street corner, stairs lead down to walkways on both sides of the canals.
The River Walk is linked with cafes, bars, shops --- and, of course, plenty of bridges. You can easily cross over to the other side without having to return to the street. It’s a constant party along the River Walk, with music and festivals throughout the year. The Mud Festival, for example, takes place each January, when the city empties this section of the river to clean it out. That’s when the Mud King and Mud Queen are crowned.
No visit to Texas would be complete without seeing a rodeo --- another aspect of this part of the country that is completely foreign to someone from New England. The announcer walks on stage and gets the crowd excited with talk about the courageous cowboys who’ll be performing. While he’s talking, a band plays sad songs about love gone wrong.
Suddenly the announcer calls for silence. He takes off his tall hat and asks us to join him in prayer. We pray for the cowboys who are, we are told, risking their lives to entertain us, as well as for the bulls and other animals taking part in the shows. We pray for the tourists who are visiting. The rodeo gets going and the fun begins.
Our prayers for the cowboys and animals are answered, and nobody gets hurt. But as we walk over to the cowboy dance hall after the show to enjoy a Texas-size barbecue, it’s clear that not enough prayers were said for the bulls’ less athletic relatives --- the ones not chosen for rodeo work. They’ll be our meal. It seems that moving too slowly has its disadvantages, too.
What do you know about the River Walk from the article?

A．People hold parties to celebrate festivals here every day.

B．It refers to the sidewalks on either side of this section of the San Antonio River.

C．There are many bridges that connect the River Walk and the Main Street.

D．Stairs link the River Walk to cafes, bars and shops in the street.

Which of the following statements about Mud festival is NOT true?

A．Mud Festival dates back to the first half of 20^th century.

B．Mud Festival is held in January every year.

C．Mud King and Mud Queen are chosen in the festival

D．Mud Festival is celebrated to clear the mud of the San Antonio River.

What does the underlined word “rodeo” refer to?

A．One aspect of the American country life.	B．The concert given by a band.
C．The cowboys’ performance.	D．The grand Texas-size barbecue.

Why do some bulls become the visitors’ meal?

A．Because they do not run as fast as those taking part in the shows.

B．Because the visitors do not pray enough for them before the shows.

C．Because they lose the competition to their relatives in the shows.

D．Because they are only beef cattle intended as people’s food.

Which of the following words can NOT be used to describe the writer’s mood?

A．light-hearted

B．excited

C．anxious

D．humorous

Ask any person who is successful in whatever he or she is doing what motivates him/her, and very likely the answer will be "goals". Goal Setting is extremely important to motivation and success. So what motivates you? Why are you in college? If you are in college because that's what your parents want, you may find it difficult to motivate yourself. Sure, it's possible to succeed with someone else providing the motivation for you. ("If you graduate from college, I'll give you a car!" or worse "If you don't graduate from college, you won't get a car.") But motivation that comes from within really makes the difference.
Certainly, you need some intelligence, knowledge base, study skills, and time management skills, but if you don't have motivation, you won't get far. Think about this analogy. You have a car with a full tank of gas, a well-tuned engine, good set of tires, quadraphonic CD system, and a sleek, polished exterior(外表). There it sits. This car has incredible potential. However, until a driver sits behind the wheel, puts the key in the ignition(点火装置), and cranks it up, the car doesn't function. You guessed it; the KEY is MOTIVATION.
Interest is an important motivator for a student. So is a desire to learn. When you link these two things together, you create success. Often success in an endeavor(努力) leads to more interest and a greater desire to learn, creating an upward spiral(螺旋形) of motivation toward a goal you have established.
So be honest with yourself. Are you genuinely interested in being in college? Have you set realistic goals for yourself? How can you develop the internal motivation that really counts? When it comes to motivation, KNOWING is not as important as DOING.
Why does the writer give the example of a car in the second paragraph?

A．Because people can never go far without a good car.

B．Because a good car motivates some college students to study harder.

C．Because a good car is a symbol of being a success.

D．Because motivation leads people to success like it starts a car.

What is the CORRECT comparison between the internal motivation and the external (外部的)motivation?

A．Only the internal motivation can result in success.

B．Internal motivation is more important than external motivation.

C．Internal motivation and external motivation has equal importance.

D．External motivation is enough for people to achieve success.

According to the article the following factors can push people towards their goals EXCEPT __________?

A．interest	B．the desire to learn
C．the knowledge of motivation	D．the sense of success

What’s the main purpose of the article?

A．To encourage everyone to develop motivation for whatever they are doing..

B．To inspire college students to set goals for their college life.

C．To imply that the less motivated college students quit the college.

D．To call on parents to give up their over-protection of their children.

What may be the writer’s advice to the potential readers?

A．The goals you set for yourself shouldn’t be far beyond your reach.

B．You needn’t attend college if you are really not interested in it.

C．You should work harder to win praise from others.

D．Honesty is the best policy to solve problems in your life.

One night Mr. Lee was driving his wife home from work. She was a staff nurse in a hospital. It was almost midnight and she was quite tired out. She soon fell asleep. Mr Lee looked at her and smiled.
Mr. Lee was a cautious and experienced driver. He knew it was safer to drive slowly on a dark night. After some time he noticed a car following him. It was traveling very fast. Suddenly it overtook his car.
The driver of the car was in a hurry. He did not see the approaching lorry(货车). To avoid hitting it, he swerved his car. It skidded off the road and hit a big tree. The driver and his passenger were injured. They were badly cut by glass splinter from the broken windscreen.
Mr. Lee quickly stopped his car by the side of the road. His wife got out of the car to help the injured men. The lorry driver also stopped to lend a helping hand. Mr. Lee immediately drove off to telephone the police.
About twenty- five minutes later, a police car and an ambulance arrived. The injured men were carried into the ambulance and taken to hospital.
The policemen took down details of the accident. Mr. Lee and the lorry driver told them all that they could remember. The policemen thanked them for their help. Mr. and Mrs. Lee then got into their car and continued their journey home.
Mrs. Lee fell asleep in the car because_____.

A．she was very tired

B．her husband was driving very slowly

C．it was too late

D．both A and C

When the accident happened, the other car was _____.

A．in front of Lee’s car	B．behind Lee’s car
C．on the right side of Lee’s car	D．on the left side of Lee’s car

To avoid hitting it, the driver swerved his car. "Swerved" means_____.
A stopped suddenly                B. turned to one side
C. drove faster                      D. turned around

The Chinese invented paper in 105 A. D. They mixed the bark of a tree and rags (破布) with water, put a screen into the mixture, and lifted out a thin piece of wet paper. They dried the paper in the sun.
The Chinese kept their secret of how to make paper until a war with Muslims in the ninth century. The art of papermaking soon spread throughout the Muslim world.
The Mayan Indians in Central America and Pacific Islanders also discovered how to make paper, but their knowledge never spread to the rest of the world.
For centuries, all paper was made by hand. Rags were the main material. Then a French scientist discovered that people could make paper from wood, too. Finally, in the eighteenth century. a Frenchman invented a machine to make paper from wood.
Who discovered how to make paper?

A．The Chinese.	B．The Pacific Islanders.
C．The Mayan Indians.	D．All of the above.

When did the Chinese invent paper according to the passage?

A．About 1 ,800 years ago.	B．About 1, 900 years ago.
C．About 2, 000 years ago.	D．About 2, 100 years ago.

How was papermaking introduced into the rest of the world from China?

A．Through wars.	B．Through the Muslims.
C．Through the Mayan Indians.	D．Through the Pacific Islanders.

Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A．The Invention of Paper.	B．The History of Papermaking.
C．Different Ways of Making Paper.	D．The Invention of a Papermaking Machine.

It was a dark and cold night. The car driver didn’t have even one passenger all day. When he went by the railway station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he quickly opened the door of the car and asked, “Where do you want to go, sir?”
“To the Star Hotel,” the young man answered. When the car driver heard that, he didn’t feel happy. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was not far from the railway station. But suddenly, he had an idea. He took the passenger through many streets of the big city.
After a long time, the car finally arrived at the hotel. “You should pay me fifteen dollars,” the car driver said to the young man. “What! Fifteen dollars? Do you think I’m a fool? Only last week I took a car from the railway station to this same hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip. I won’t pay you one dollar more than I paid to the other car driver last week.”
Which of the following is true? ____________

A．The young man went past the railway station.

B．The young man was working in the railway station

C．The young man had just got off a train.

D．The young man was waiting for his friend there.

What do you think of the car driver?__________

A．He was a nice and clever man.	B．He liked to work very hard.
C．He was good at driving	D．He was not an honest person.

The driver felt very ____when he saw the young man coming out of the railway station.

A．sad

B．sorry

C．happy

D．worried

From the passage we know that the young man__________.

A．Knew clearly how far it was from the station to the hotel.

B．Had been to the hotel several times.

C．didn’t want to stay in this city.

D．must be a stranger and didn’t know the city very well.

Suppose you are a visitor in the land of Mongolia, some friends ask you to eat with them. What kind of manners do they want you to have? They want you to give a loud burp after you finish eating. Burping would show that you like your food. In some countries, if you give a big burp, you are told to say “Excuse me, please”.
In many places people like to eat together. But in some parts of Polynesia it is bad manners to be seen eating at all. People show their good manners by turning their backs on others while they eat.
What are manners like in an East African town? The people try not to see you. They are being polite. You may see a friend. He may not see you at all. If you are polite, you will sit down beside him. You will wait until he finishes what he is doing. Then he will talk to you. Manners are different all over the world. But it is good to know that all manners begin in the same way. People need ways to show that they want to be friends.
In Mongolia, burping is a way of showing that __________.

A．you are impolite	B．you enjoyed the meal prepared by the host
C．your meal was not enough	D．you are friendly with your host

In Polynesia, to be polite while eating you should __________.

A．eat quickly	B．sit still
C．turn your back on others	D．say “Excuse me, please”

People in an East African town are being polite by __________.

A．waiting for a long time before visits	B．sitting down beside others
C．seeing a friend quickly	D．trying not to see you

The best title for this passage is __________.

A．Good Manners	B．All manners is the Same Way
C．Different Kinds of Manners	D．Do Have Manners

Chinese are very generous (慷慨) when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet（芭蕾舞）, or other classes that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence (自信). 
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse（唤起） his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.  
Parents in China, according to this passage, _______.

A．are too strict with their children

B．are too rich to educate their children

C．have some problems in educating their children correctly

D．are too poor to educate their children

The writer of the passage does not seem to be satisfied with ______.

A．the parents’ ideas of educating their children	B．the education system
C．children’s skills	D．children’s hobbies

Doing some cooking at home helps children ______.

A．learn how to serve their parents

B．learn how to become strong and fat

C．benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future

D．make their parents believe that they are clever

According to the last paragraph we can conclude that ______.

A．broken radios and television sets are useful

B．one’s curiosity may be useful for his later life

C．an engineer must fix many broken radios

D．a good student should spend much time repairing radios

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy — who could not have been more than seven or eight years old — replied. “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed (确认) my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school.
Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?
Human development is depended not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation (诱惑) , many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.
According to the author, feeling depressed is ________.

A．a sure sign of a mental problem in a child

B．a mental state present in all humans, including children

C．something that cannot be avoided in children’s mental development

D．something hardly to be expected in a young child

Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world _________.

A．through connection with society

B．gradually and under guidance

C．naturally without being taught

D．through watching television

According to the author, that today’s children seem adultlike results from ______.

A．the widespread influence of television

B．the poor arrangement of teaching content

C．the fast pace of human scientific development

D．the rising standard of living

What does the author think of communication through print for children?

A．It enables children to gain more social information.

B．It develops children’s interest in reading and writing.

C．It helps children to read and write well.

D．It can control what children are to learn.

The impression you make at the beginning of an interview is very important. Employers often decide to hire someone in the first three minutes of the interview. They judge you by your appearance，attitude(态度)and manners.
A friendly smile when you walk into the room is important. A smile shows a confident（自信的） and positive attitude.
When you introduce yourself， make eye contact with the interviewer. Some interviewers offer a handshake. Others don’t.
Try to be as natural as possible. But pay attention to your body language. The way you sit，walk，gesture，use your voice and show feelings on your face is all part of your body language. It makes the interviewer know how you feel about yourself and the situation you are in. Are you feeling positively about yourself?  Your abilities?  Your interest in the job?
Speak clearly and loudly enough. Show interest and enthusiasm in your voice. When you speak， look at the interviewer. Also， don’t say negative things about yourself， or former employer.
Listen to questions carefully. If you don’t understand a question， ask the interviewer to repeat or explain：
“I’m sorry， but I didn’t catch that.”
“I’m not sure exactly what you mean.”
Almost everyone is nervous in a job interview. Interviewers know that. They don’t expect you to be totally calm and relaxed. But they expect you to try to control your nervousness. They expect you to show confidence in your ability to do the job.
At the end of the interview， thank the interviewer for her or his time.
It’s a good idea to send a short thank-you letter right after the interview， or deliver it by hand.
Phone the company if you have not heard anything after one week. Ask if they have made a decision about the job.
Good luck！
It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A．you should always put on a smile when meeting the employer

B．you should stand still with respect before the employer

C．the first impression is very important in an interview

D．employers understand and like employees’ nervousness

Why should we pay attention to our body language?

A．Because it can help us win the employer’s positive impression.

B．Because it can help us feel about the employer.

C．Because it is needed by our employer.

D．Because we need it to improve our feelings.

The main purpose of the passage is ______.

A．to give you some advice on the art of finding a job

B．to tell right from wrong about job interviews

C．to explain why we should do something about an interview

D．to suggest not being shy in an interview

Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．A Friendly Smile	B．Making a Good Expression
C．Don’t Be Nervous	D．Sending a Thank-You Letter