(A)
A good reader is very much like a driver. He must change his reading speed（速度）to fit（适应）what he is reading and what he is reading for, just as a driver does to fit the road situation （状况）.
A good reader may read at 1,000 WPM（每分钟…词）when he looks for something for a report in the library. But once he finds what he needs, he may slow own to 100 WPM. A good reader may read newspapers and story books at 600 WPM. But he may read his science or maths books at 150 WPM. Just as a driver has aide change of driving speed, so a good reader has aide change of reading speed.
(1) The writer thinks that a good reader can________.
A. read at 1,000 WPM B. read as fast as he can
C. spend more time reading D. change the reading speed as he needs
(2) ________ decides the speed of reading.
A. How many books he is reading B. What he is reading for
C. Where he is reading D. When he is reading
(3) A good reader may read fastest ________.
A. when he reads newspapers and story books
B. when he reads something most useful to him
C. when he is trying to work out a maths problem
D. when he is trying to find something for his report
(4) The word "Once" in the passage means________.
A. one time B. only
C. as soon as D. at once
(5) Which is the best title（题目）for this passage?
A. The Importance, Of Having Different Reading Speed
B. The Difference Between Driving And Reading
C. The Best Way Of Fast Reading
D. A Good Reader And His Reading Speed
(B)
Do you know something about tree rings（年轮）? Do you know they can tell us what the weather was like, sometimes even hundreds of years ago?
A tree will grow well in a climate（气候）with lots of sunshine and rainfall（雨量）. And little sunshine or rainfall will limit（限制）the growth of a tree. We can see the change of climate by studying the tree rings. For example, to find out the weather of ten years ago, count the rings of a tree from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the eleventh ring, then we're sure that it was sunny and rainy most of that year. If it is near to the eleventh ring, then the climate that year was bad.
Tree rings are important not only for studying the history of weather but also for studying the history of man. Many centuries ago there lived a lot of people at a place in New Mexico. But now you can find only sand there-no trees and no people. What happened?
A scientist studied the rings of dead trees there. He found that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees to make fires and buildings. As all the trees had gone, the people there had to move.
(6) ________ in good climate.
A. Tree rings grow far from each other
B. Tree become thinner
C. Trees don't need sunshine or rainfall
D. People can cut down most of the trees
(7) The scientists are interested in studying tree rings because tree rings can tell________.
A. whether a tree was strong or not
B. whether people took good care of the tree or not
C. whether the climate was good or not
D. how old the trees were
(8) If you want to find out the weather of twenty years ago, you should study________ of a
tree from the outside to the inside.
A. the twentieth ring B. the tenth ring
C. the nineteenth ring D. the twenty-first ring
(9) Why did people usually live in places with lots of trees?
A. Trees could tell the change of the weather.
B. Trees brought lots of sunshine and rain.
C. Trees could make weather not too hot or too cold.
D. Trees could be used for burning and for building houses.
(10) The people had to leave the place in New Mexico________.
A. because bad weather stopped the growth of trees
B. because they no longer had water and the land became sand
C. because they didn't have enough trees for burn
D. because there was too much rain there
Key: (A) (1) — (5)OBDCD (B) (6) -- (10) ACADB
