一、阅读理解
Passage 1
The angry woman stood on the station platform (月台). “The railway should pay me ￡14,” she said to Tony Jenks, the man in the booking office. “My t icket was for June 26th, and there was no ship from Jersey that night. My daughter and I had to
stay in a hotel. It cost me ￡14.” Tony was worried. He remembered s elling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the office, madam,” he said politely. “I’ll just check the Jersey timetable for June 26th.” The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, as Tony soon discovered. There was no ship sailing on June 26th. How had
he made such a careless mistake? Not knowing what to do, he
smiled at the child. “You look sunburned (晒黑的),” he said to her. “Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”“Yes,”she a nswered shyly. “The beach was lovely. And I could swim
too!”“That’s fine,” said Tony. “My little girl can’t swim a bit yet. Of course, she’s only three……”“I’m four,” the child said proudly. “I’ll soon be four and a half.” Tony turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket, madam,” he said. “But you didn’t get one for your daughter,
did you?” “Er, well……” the woman looked at the child, “I mean —she hasn’t started school yet. She’s only four.” “A four-year-old child must have a ticket, madam. A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs — let me see —￡15.50. So if you want the railway to pay ￡14 for your hotel, you will have to pay the railway ￡15.50 first. The law is the law, but since the fault was mine……” The woman stood up, took the child’s hand and left the office.
1. A return ticket is a ticket that __________.
B. one buys when one returns
C. must be returned if one wants to get his money back
D. allows a passenger to travel to a place and return later
2. The man i n the booking office mentioned the child’s ticket
in order to __________.
A. send the woman away
B. get back ￡15.50
C. say sorry to the woman
D. make clear the importance of the law
3. According to the railway law, a child __________.
A. must have a ticket just like a grown-up
B. can not travel without a ticket
C. below the age of four can travel without a ticket
D. can travel with grown-ups without a ticket
4. At last the woman got __________ from the railway booking office.
A. ￡15.50
B. ￡1.50
C. ￡14
D. nothing
5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. After checking the timetable Tony found there was a ship from Jersey on June 26th.
B. Tony said sorry to the woman and paid her ￡14.
C. The woman did not travel at all to Jersey with her
daughter to spend her holiday.
D. It was clear that the woman was not honest.
答案：D A C D D
Passage 2
Throughout history, people had dreamed about joining England
and France together. Even Napoleon had a plan to dig a tunnel
(隧道) and reach England. One of the first people who tried
to dig a tunnel under the Channel was a French engineer called Albert Mathieu. His tunnel failed.
In 1881, Colonel Beamont a nd Captain English from Britain also tried to dig a tunnel. Their tunnel went six kilometers
into the Channel. Queen Victoria stopped them and said it was dangerous to connect with France. It was a very good tunnel,
and it is still there today.
The new tunnel (ready in 1993) is, in fact, three tunnels-two for trains and a “service tunnel” for fresh air to go in and for men w ho take care of the tunnels. The tunnels are fifty kilometers long, forty meters under water. Forty
kilometers of tunnel are under the sea itself. They are the
longest undersea tunnels in the world. Trains travel through
the tunnels at 160 km/h. People drive their cars onto trains
and the trains take them through the tunnel. Each train takes 1,500 people and there are trains every ten minutes.
A special radio station called Channel Channel has started, because it is impossible to receive normal radio
signals (信号) when you are under the sea. The station sends
news to keep people up-to-date with the “world outside”while they are in the tunnel.
6. What was people’s dream about England and France?
A. Napoleon could reach England.
B. Napoleon could dig a tunnel for them.
C. Albert Mathieu would succeed.
D. England and
France could be joined together.
7. Which is TRUE about the tunnel building in 1881?
A. The tunnel went six kilometers from France.
B. Tunnel-building was a dangerous job.
C. The old tunnel is still under the sea.
D. The queen agreed to the digging plan.
8. What’s the traveling like in the tunnel?
A. Trains and cars can travel at 160 km/h.
B. People can travel by trains through two tunnels.
C. It takes ten minutes to go through the tunnel by train.
D. People can drive their cars or take trains through the
tunnel.
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