阅读理解（20小题，每小题2分，共40分）
Who says that skirts are only for girls? Men can also wear them. Scotchmen have worn them for many years. They call their skirts kilts. A kilt is a colored skirt. It reaches down to the knee(膝盖). It has different colored checks (方格) on it, like red or blue. Some families in Scotland have their own colors and designs. From the kind of kilt they wear you can tell which group they come from.
The kilt goes back to the 1720s. Scottish soldiers used to wear them. Later, many Scottish men wore them. Today the kilt is not much seen in Scotland. However, in some parts of the country you can still see some older men wearing kilts. Most Scotchman see the kilt as formal dress for national celebrations, marriages or big dinners.
Even kilt makers have moved with the times. Some modern designs have a pocket for a mobile phone.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案, 并将其标号填入题前括号内。Men in ____ wear skirts for many years.
| A．Spain | B．Korean |
| C．Japan | D．Scotland |
A kilt is___________.
| A．a kind of beautiful pants |
| B．a kind of skirt with colored checks on it |
| C．a red or blue dress |
| D．a kind of shorts |
Kilts appeared ________ ago.
| A．nearly three hundred years | B．hundreds of years |
| C．thousands of years | D．nearly two hundred years |
Which of the following statements isTRUE?
| A．Today the kilt is never seen in Scotland. |
| B．Today more young men like to wear kilts. |
| C．Today Scotchmen may dress in kilts for formal occasions. |
| D．Today we can use kilts to call somebody. |
What’s the best title for the passage?
| A．Scotchmen | B．a kind of beautiful skirt |
| C．Skirts for men | D．The kilts today |
In some parts of China, school children have to cook for themselves. But now, with the help of donations, this becomes a history forever.
At the donation ceremony in southwest China's Lishan Primary School in Yunnan province, kids gathered at playground to receive something new to them -- a kitchen system. Gu Dongjun was the donor of the new system. She wanted the children to grow up healthily.” I hope the kids can eat clean and hot food,” she said.
Lishan Primary School has more than 500students. Half of them live at school, and have to cook for themselves in the open air. They have been picturing their dream kitchen since they knew they would no longer have to cook outside.
It was not just Lishan Primary School getting a new kitchen. Another 12 schools in Yunan Province also got new kitchens. Zhou Faming is the headmaster of Panlong Primary School. He said the new system really helped improve the quality of food. China Youth Development Foundation(中国青少年发展基金会)started an activity recently to support 100 schools every year in poor places. And so far 20 schools have already received the new kitchen system.According to the passage, how might the students eat in the past?
| A．Clean and hot. | B．Delicious and warm. |
| C．Dirty and cold. | D．Clean and warm. |
In Lishan Primary School, how did the students who lived there get their food in the past?
| A．They cooked on their own in the open air. |
| B．Their mother cooked for them. |
| C．The cook cooked for them in the kitchen. |
| D．The cook cooked for them in the open air. |
In Lishan Primary School, when did they draw their dream kitchen?
| A．Since they had no kitchen. |
| B．Since they went to the school. |
| C．Since they received a kitchen system. |
| D．Since they knew the would have a new kitchen. |
What is the best title of the passage?
| A．Chinese Schools. | B．China Youth Development Foundation. |
| C．Feed Students Better | D．How to Cook. |
In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers(乘客). Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food or drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was a hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.The underlined word “adventurous” means _____________.
| A．奇怪的 | B．平淡的 | C．有趣的 | D．冒险的 |
The main reason for Boeing Air Transport offering Ellen the job was ________.
| A．her flying experience | B．her university education |
| C．her nursing experience | D．her life attitudes |
According to the passage, in the 1940s a woman had to ________ if she wanted to be a stewardess.
| A．be a nurse | B．be married | C．be a mother | D．be young |
The passage mainly talks about _______.
| A．the background of early flying pilots |
| B．the experience of flying passengers |
| C．the history of early flight attendants |
| D．the development of airplanes |
According to HEALTHY EATING PLATE, we should pay attention to ______aspects方面 to be healthy.
| A．2 | B．4 | C．6 | D．1 |
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
| A．Some kinds of oil are unhealthy. |
| B．Eating lots of fruit of different colors is a good way to keep healthy. |
| C．Brown rice is healthier than white rice. |
| D．We’d better eat a lot of potatoes and French fries. |
What’s the passage mainly about? __________________.
| A．How to use plates | B．How to eat healthily |
| C．How to use healthy oils | D．How to eat whole grains |
It seems that women and beauty go together. I think so. Look around yourself. Fashion ads are almost everywhere. Whether they have realized or not, a sea of. fashion is all around women. They are made to think that without beautiful clothes they will look old and lose their charm(魅力）. So who doesn’t want to dress up to be beautiful and young?
But I don’t agree with the opinion that women have to show their beauty through their looks. Their mind can be more beautiful and attractive than their looks. A woman has experienced many troubles and may be called “aunt”, but she can still be beautiful if she has excellent qualities like knowledge, a kind heart and great courage(勇气）.
What’s more，old and young, beautiful and ugly are relative. People who keep a young mind will never feel old. Knowing about new things and wanting to learn more，they can keep up with fashion. Simply dressed women are also beautiful in their own way.
Reading and learning is the best way to keep one young. Good books can feed the flower of one’s heart and looks.Why does the writer say that women and beauty go together ？
| A．Because women are sure to be beauties. |
| B．Because women like to show their beautiful clothes. |
| C．Because women try to keep their beauty by dressing up. |
| D．Because women like to watch fashion ads. |
According to the writer, in order to stay beautiful, women should
| A．follow fashion | B．do more exercise |
| C．keep their mind young | D．buy more clothes |
What does the underlined word “relative” most probably mean in Chinese?
| A．正常的 | B．合适的 | C．亲戚的 | D．相对的 |
Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
| A．Women and Fashion | B．Beauty and Ugly |
| C．Women and Beauty | D．How to Keep Young |
Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding.
When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding (婚礼) and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address (地址) Unknown. ” I had no idea how to find Linda.
Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share (分享) happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman — Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but J still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans _______.
| A．at the age of 13 |
| B．before she got married |
| C．after they moved to new homes |
| D．before the writer’s family moved away |
They didn’t often write to each other because they _______.
| A．got married |
| B．had little time to do so |
| C．didn’t like writing letters |
| D．could see each other on special time |
The writer was happy when she _______.
| A．read the newspaper |
| B．heard Linda’s voice on the phone |
| C．met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda |
| D．wrote to the woman whose last name was Wagman |
They haven’t kept in touch _______.
| A．for about 40 years |
| B．for about 27 years |
| C．since they got married |
| D．since the writer’s family moved away |
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