| ① | Mrs. Li is over 70 years old. She has lived in Beijing all her life. A reporter interviewed her yesterday. The following are their questions and answers. |
| ② | Reporter: What was your life like in the past? |
| ③ | Mrs. Li: My family lived in a tiny house. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. My mum was a farm girl before she met my father. She was a kind and loving mother. She didn’t go out to work. There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job. |
| ④ | The food we ate was simple. We could only eat meat once or twice a year. I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it. |
| ⑤ | Reporter: How has life changed? |
| ⑥ | Mrs. Li: Families have got smaller than they were in the past. The role of women has changed too. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good education. I’m happy that she can go to work even after getting married, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come to see me often. |
| ⑦ | Transport and travel are easier today. When I was young, I went everywhere on foot or sometimes by bike. Now you can take the bus, the underground or a plane to travel. What I don’t like is that there’s so much more traffic. It’s so difficult to cross the road. And, of course, we have television today and I really enjoy watching TV. But I hate some of the shows because they are too noisy for me. |
| ⑧ | Generally speaking, I think life is better today. We eat better and we live longer. |
16 ． Who does Paragraph 3 ( 第 3 段 ) mainly talk about?A ． Mrs. Li’s father and mother. B ． Mrs. Li’s mother and Mrs. Li.
C ． Mrs. Li’s brothers and sisters. D ． Mrs. Li’s father and the children.
17 ． Mrs. Li’s mother ________.
A ． worked very hard at home B ． was very strict with her children
C ． often gave her children meat to eat D ． worked on a farm after getting married
18 ． The passage tells us that Mrs. Li ________.
A ． can often see her daughter
B ． has lived in Beijing for 50 years
C ． usually went out by bike when she was young
D ． couldn’t go to school because her family was poor
19 ． Mrs. Li thinks ________.
A ． her daughter is not lucky B ． it’s easy to cross the road
C ． the food she eats is simple D ． some TV shows are too noisy
20 ． The passage above can probably be found in the part of _________ in a newspaper.
A ． Business B ． Nature C ． Life D ． Travel
A 17 ． A 18 ． D 19 ． D 20 ． C
【导语】本文是记者采访李夫人，谈到了过去和现在的生活发生的变化。
16 ．细节理解题。根据 “My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. My mum was a farm girl before she met my father” 可知，第三段主要介绍了李夫人的爸爸妈妈，故选 A 。
17 ．推理判断题。根据 “She didn’t go out to work. There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job” 可知，李夫人的妈妈在家里照顾孩子比一份全职工作还要辛苦，由此可以推断妈妈在家里很辛苦，故选 A 。
18 ．细节理解题。根据 “I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it” 可知，李夫人没有去上学，因为家里很穷，故选 D 。
19 ．细节理解题。根据 “But I hate some of the shows because they are too noisy for me.” 可知，她认为有些节目太吵了，故选 D 。
20 ．推理判断题。本文是记者采访李夫人，谈到了过去和现在的生活发生的变化，这是属于生活类的文章，故选 C 。
July 10, 2008
Dear Lily King,
I’m Wang Fang. I am a librarian(图书管理员) in Xinhua Library.
I’m sorry to remind(提醒) you that you have four overdue(过期的) books. Please return the four books tomorrow. Other people may be waiting to borrow them. You can not borrow other books until these books are returned.
Yours truly,
Wang Fang
| Name | Writer | Out | Due (到期的) |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 2/5 | 2/7 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 3/5 | 3/7 |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 4/5 | 4/7 |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 5/5 | 5/7 |
26．The letter was sent to a ________.
A．librarian B．reader C．writer D．boss
27．________ wrote the book Gone with the Wind.
A．Charlotte Bronte B．Margaret Mitchell
C．Charles Dickens D．Ernest Hemingway
28．The book David Copperfield should be returned to the library before ________.
A．July 2 B．July 3 C．July 4 D．July 5
29．Lily King has kept these books for about ________.
A．a month B．one and a half months
C．two months D．three and a half months
30．From this letter we know that ________.
A．Wang Fang does not like reading B．Lily King and Wang Fang are good friends
C．these books are not very popular D．Lily King can’t borrow other books at the moment