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    第三节：阅读理解（共25小题; 每小题2分, 满分50分）
    It was 3:12 a. m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling（爆裂声）of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island.
    With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collapsed on the lawn (草坪).
    The nine-year-old raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother’s room. He found it impossible to woke her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim of the smoke, was unconscious, and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy remained calm and, as a fireman said later, “acted with all the self-control of a trained adult.”
    On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on with the task of saving his mother.
    First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.
    He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor?
    Grasping firmly a ball of string from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed upstairs to his mother’s room. Tying one end of the string to her hand he ran back, laying out the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.
    Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan: “The string will lead you to mother.” Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.
    1．Why did Glenn run downstairs first?
    A．He wanted to find out what was happening.  
    B．He was worried about his mother’s safety.
    C．He wanted to save his sister and brother.    
    D．He went to see if his father had come back from work.
    2．How did Glenn help the firemen to save his mother?
    A．By throwing water all over her and her bed.    
    B．By carrying her to safety with his brother.
    C．By pushing and pulling at her.              
    D．By tying a string to her hand.
    3．Who called the fire brigade and ambulance service?
    A．Glenn.    B．Glenn’s father.     C．Glenn’s sister.    D．Glenn’s neighbor.
    4．What did Glenn do to protect himself?
    A．He put a wet cloth around his head.      B．He threw water all over himself.
    C．He hid himself in the bathroom.         D．He rushed out to the lawn.
    5．Glenn saved his family because___________.
    A．his father had taught him to do so on the phone   
    B．he had learned something about first aid
    C．he had dealt with the emergency calmly and wisely 
    D．he had followed his mother’s instruction

    小题1:C
    小题2:D
    小题3:B
    小题4:A
    小题5:C
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    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解

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    The German rail operator has launched a bicycle-hire scheme designed for simple one-way trips.
    “It’s a new concept,”said Andreas Knie, head of the project.
    Users must first register with Call-A-Bike at a cost of 15 euros（US$14.7）. With a simple phone call, they can hire one of the many bikes parked outside stations, at a cost of 3 to 5 cents per minute. At the end of their journey, they ring a computer and tell it where the bike is parked.
    The bikes are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    No one will be breaking speed records with Call-A-Bike bicycles. They weigh in at 25 kilograms, at least double the weight of a normal bicycle, though they do have eight gears（齿轮）.
    “They are pretty heavy, but we don’t want people taking them on the train or into the subway,” Knie said.
    They are also designed with parts that do not fit a normal bicycle. Even the screws are irregular and the bike looks so odd that thieves would stand out.
    Vandalism and theft have led to the downfall of previous schemes which date back to Amsterdam’s 1966“White Bike”scheme.
    In that short-lived experiment, anti-establishment groups painted bikes white and left them around the Dutch capital.
    However, many were taken permanently and repainted, while the police took away others on the basis that ownerless bikes were street rubbish.
    Copenhagen, Vienna and Helsinki also have free bike schemes, in which users deposit a coin in Copenhagen’s case 20 crowns（US$2.50）—to free a bike from a rack.
    “The advantage these schemes have is ease of use. But because they’re so cheap, people tend to hold on to the bikes and then there are none on the streets,”the person in charge said.
    Oslo is also planning a bike-hire system where users will pay a symbolic fee of 50 Norwegian crowns（US$6.50）for unlimited use in the city for a year.
    Users will buy an electronic identity card as a key that will register when the bike is parked or taken from a rack.
    59. How many European countries have already launched the free bike schemes?
    A. Four.                                B. Five.                                C. Six.                                   D. Seven.
    60.What can be learned about Amsterdam’s 1966“White Bike”scheme?
    A. The bicycles were twice as heavy as a normal bicycle.
    B. A heavy rain stopped the scheme from being carried out.
    C. Some bicycles were damaged or stolen and the scheme failed.
    D. The police ended the scheme for traffic safety
    61.What can be inferred from the text?
    A. Bicycles for rent have become as common as newspaper stands and mail boxes on Germany’s street corners.
    B. The bikes in Germany are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    C. German bicycles for rent are designed specially so that they will draw people’s attention.
    D. Germany has taken some measures to stop the bicycles for rent from being taken away.
    62.Which do you think is the best title?
    A. Free Bicycles for Europeans.                                  
    B. Tough Transporters.
    C. Customer is King.                                                      
    D. Unpractical Scheme.

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