D
My name is Sarah. I like animals very much. When I left school at eighteen, I got a job at a zoo as a student keeper. Now，five years later, things have changed --- I have passed my exams and I am a full animal keeper.
The money is not good. I only get￡9,000 a year. You have to be outside in rain and snow, which is hard work, and you get very dirty. But this doesn’t matter to me because animals are the most important thing in my life!
There are a hundred monkeys and fifty deer in my part of the zoo and I give them their food and clean their houses. I also need to watch them carefully to be sure that they are all well. In fact rhinos(犀牛)are my favourite animals and so last year I went to Africa(非洲)with a workmate for a month to study them.
The zoo is open every day and I work five different days each week. I live in a small flat (公寓) twenty minutes away and I get up at ten to seven and start work at eight. The first thing I do when I get home at quarter past five is to take a shower!
( )66. Sarah left school ____________.
A. eighteen years ago
B. nine years ago
C. five years ago
( )67. How does Sarah feel about working in bad weather?
A. She hates getting dirty.
B. She doesn’t mind it.
C. She likes the snow.
( )68. The animals Sarah like best are the ____________.
A. monkeys
B. deer
C. rhinos
( )69. The zoo is open ____________.
A. seven days a week
B. only five days a week
C. on different days every week
( )70. Sarah arrives at her flat in the evening at ____________.
A. twenty past five
B. five fifteen
C. ten to seven
E
One of the best-known American writers is Samuel Clemens, whose pen name is Mark Twain. Born in 1835, Clemens grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. As did many other young people of his day, Clemens dreamed of traveling on riverboats and of someday becoming a riverboat pilot. He used his memories(记忆) of the life of a river town in his two most famous books, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
As a young man, Clemens held many jobs. He was a printer(印刷工), a gold miner(矿工) and a riverboat pilot. During his pilot days, he used the name Mark Twain. This was a term used on the river to mean that the water measured(测量) 2 fathoms(英寻), or 4 meters (nearly 12 feet), which was deep enough for safe passage.
Finally Twain became a successful writer. He traveled a great deal, writing and speaking. He became very popular both in the United States and in Europe.
Twain’s style of writing was simple and direct. Among the things that he wrote about were superstitious(迷信的) people and people who were really fool. He used his unusual gift for humor (幽默) to write about many things of importance.
阅读短文，然后判断正(A)误(B)。
( )71. This article as a whole is about a riverboat pilot.
( )72. Mark Twain worked as a pilot all the time before he became a successful writer.
( )73. Mark Twain knew much about the Mississippi.
( )74. It is very difficult to understand Mark Twain’s works.
( )75. Huckleberry Finn is a book about the life of the Mississippi River.
四、根据中文提示完成下列句子(共5句，每空1分，满分为12分。)
76. 天气变暖和了，天变长了。
The weather ______ __________, and the days get longer.
77. 如果有问题，你可以请老师帮忙。
If you have questions, you can _______ your teacher _______ help.
78. 我昨天早上走了半个小时到学校。
It _____ me half an hour to ________ school yesterday morning.
79. 你最好看好你的外衣，它很贵。
You _______ _________ look after your coat, it’s very dear.
80. 他认为乡村比城市更美。
He ___________ the country is _________ ______________ than the __________.
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