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     Two strangers were sitting together in a plane. They were on a long journey. One of the man was a

teacher, the other was a farmer.

     They sat without talking for a while, then the farmer said, "Let's do something to pass the time." "What

do you want to do?" the teacher asked. "We can ask each other riddles," the farmer said. "You start." " Let's

make the rules first," the teacher said. "And to make the game more interesting, let's play it for money. If

we don't know the answer to a riddle, we have to pay a dollar." The farmer thought about this for a while,

then he said, "That's not fair(公平). You are a teacher, an educated man. You know more things than I

do. I am just a farmer." "That's true," the teacher said. "What do you think we should do?" the farmer

said, "If you don't know the answer to a riddle, you pay me 100 dollars. If I don't know the answer to

a riddle, I'll pay you 50 dollars." The teacher thought for a while, then he said, "OK. That's fair. Who'll

go first?" "I will," the farmer said. "Here is my riddle. What has three legs when it walks, but only two

legs when it flies?" The teacher thought and thought, "What has three legs when it walks, but only two

when it flies?" Then he said, "That is a good one. I don't know the answer." He gave the farmer 100

dollars and said, "Tell me the answer. What is it?"

      " I don't know, either." The farmer said, and gave him 50 dollars.

1. At first the two men sat there without talking because _____. [ ]

A. the farmer didn't like the teacher

B. the teacher didn't like the farmer

C. the farmer like to tell jokes

D. they didn't know each other

2. The farmer wanted to _____. [ ]

A. make the journey interesting

B. see if the teacher was lucky

C. know if the teacher was clever

D. make friends with the teacher

3. The teacher thought at first that the farmer ______. [ ]

A. would fail the game

B. knew more than he

C. could answer any riddles

D. would win the game

4. From this short story we know that ______. [ ]

A. the teacher was cleverer than the farmer

B. an educated man is not always clever

C. both of the two men could know the answer

D. neither of the two men was clever

5. The best title of this story is ______. [ ]

A. How to Answer Riddles

B. A rich Teacher

C. A Way of Getting Money

D. A Clever Farmer

答案

1-5  D A A B D

阅读理解

Who wants to carry a bulky bag to school? No children. Nobody wants one shoulder to be lower than the other, and paining(疼痛) too. In India, most of us would look at the reduction(减少) of textbooks as a way out. But in a country like America, there are always more choices. A company called Goreader has created a “school bag” which is the size of a laptop computer, weighing about 2.5kg. The Goreader has a colour screen and can “hold” all the textbooks that a student may need, says a report in “The Asian Age” newspaper.

The company plans to work closely with the publishers of test books so that these books can be supplied on the Internet. All the students will have to download their textbooks. Making notes and marking important parts of a lesson can be done just as lots of students have done on their textbooks before.

At present, the plan is being tested out in a university. Richard Katzmann, the owner of the company is having his creation tested at Chicago’s DePaul University, where he studied. Does that mean it is goodbye to the newspaper, and the smell of the black ink?

小题1:What does the underlined word “bulky” in the first line mean?

A.light

B.small

C.big and heavy

D.old小题2:What would Indians do to solve this problem?

A.They would reduce the textbooks.

B.They would tell the parents to help students.

C.They would tell the teachers to help students.

D.They would take students to school by bus.小题3:The writer may think that Americans have a ______ way to solve the problem.

A.more stupid

B.worse

C.better

D.quicker小题4:The Goreader may be a machine ________.

A.that can work as a teacher

B.that can be used as textbooks

C.that can cheat(欺骗) students.

D.that can hurt students小题5: When the new machine is used, it is possible that ________.

A.students might study harder

B.students might study at home

C.students might not need teachers

D.students might study without paper textbooks

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