第三部分：阅读理解：（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Switzerland（瑞士）is famous for its watches. However, this country did not invent the watch. It was the British who did it. Here is a story of how the watch was brought to Switzerland.
Many years ago, an Englishman was traveling to Italy. On his way he stopped in a small town in South Switzerland. This Englishman traveled in a carriage（四轮马车）inside which there was a carriage watch. This was the earliest kind of watch. A native shop assistant happened to see the watch. He wondered what it was and asked the Englishman about it. “It is a carriage watch,” said the man. “This machine tells the time, but now it isn’t working.”
At once the shop assistant offered to try to repair it. So the traveler handed him the watch. The assistant was a very wise man. So it was not surprising that he managed to repair it. He even remembered how it was made. As soon as the traveler had gone on his way, he made a watch exactly the same type.
Thus watch-making was started in Switzerland. Today Swiss watches are sold in stores all over the world.
61．Switzerland is famous for .
A．making watches B．selling watches
C．inventing the watch D．repairing the carriage watch
62．It was who brought a watch to Switzerland earliest.
A．a Swiss B．an Italian C．an Englishman D．a shop assistant
63．The earliest watches were made in .
A．Switzerland B．England C．Italy D．a small town
64．The first Swiss watch was made by .
A．an Italian shop assistant B．an English traveler
C．a Swiss shop assistant D．a man who was traveling to Italy
65．The carriage watch was a machine which .
A．was put in the carriage B．wasn’t working
C．told people time D．had to be fixed
B
DARWIN（达尔文）
Darwin was not a bright boy. He was much slower than his younger sister, and he was in many ways a naughty boy. However, at the age of eight he was trying to make out the names of all plants he saw, and he was busy collecting all sorts of things. And he even imagined producing coloured roses by watering them with certain colored liquids. Once he read the book Wonders of the World ,he wished to work wonders himself some day.
One summer vacation Darwin became a great collector of beetles（甲虫）.At that time he only collected them but made no scientific study of them. One day on tearing off the bark（树皮）he saw some unusual beetles, and seized one in each hand, then he saw a third and new kind, which he could not bear to lose, so that he put the one that he held in his right hand into his mouth. But it sent out some gas, which burned his tongue. He was forced to spit it out. It was lost, so was the third one.
Darwin accepted the offer by the navy（海军）to go on a voyage（航海）to explore（探索）the Southern Sea in the name of the government on a warship at the age of twenty-two. He was on board for five years. And during the long voyage he collected a great many of facts in Natural Science.
66．In his early years, Darwin was in producing colored roses.
A．successful B．interested C．helped D．not interested
67．“to work wonders”means .
A．to work with surprising results
B．to have a wonderful job
C．to make something difficult to understand
D．to produce beautiful things
68．When he was young ,Darwin showed great interest in
A．the names of some interesting plants B．natural science
C．collecting some plants D．colorful roses
69．Darwin put one beetle into his mouth in order to .
A．taste the gas it sent out B．eat it as he was hungry
C．save the life of the beetle D．spare his right hand to catch the third one
70．Darwin returned from the voyage at the age of .
A．22 B．24 C．27 D．28
C
Long ago, in 331 B.C., Greece conquered（征服）Egypt and built Alexandria（亚历山大港）.This city was named after Alexander the Great’King of Greece. After Alexander’s death, a great general named Ptolemy became ruler of Egypt.
The Greeks loved learning. Ptolemy believed that people needed to have written records of their thoughts and ideas. They needed to have a place to collect their books. For the first time in history, Ptolemy tried to collect together all the Greek books that had been written. To do this, he built the largest and the best library in ancient world.
Before this time, great writings were often hard to find, and many had been lost. Books were then written by hand on a kind of paper called papyrus. Sheets of papyrus were rolled around wooden sticks. The papyrus（纸莎草制的纸）rolls were stored in deep shelves on the library walls.
All books brought in Egypt were taken to the library.There,scholars studied them and corrected any mistakes. The books were copied over so they would be easier to read and store. They were listed in catalog（目录）.
The library at Alexandria grew to have over a half million books. It was a center of learning for over 700 years before it was destroyed by fire in A.D.391.
71．Alexandria is the name of a while Alexander was the name of a .
A．place in Egypt; king in Greece B．place in Greece; king in Egypt
C．king in Greece; place in Egypt D．place in Greece; king in Egypt
72．In this passage the word“scholars”means .
A．people who fought as soldiers B．people with much learning
C．people who taught in schools D．people who wrote the Greek books
73．The passage does not say so, but it makes you think that .
A．it was hard to make papyrus
B．copying books took a long time
C．no one ever read the books at Alexandria
D．Books from all over the world were brought to the library
74．Why did Ptolemy build a large library at Alexandria?
A．Because he thought it would make him as famous as Alexander the Great.
B．Because he wanted a safe place to collect all Greek books.
C．Because he wanted a new way to print books.
D．Because he wanted to correct all the mistakes in the books.
75．Which of the following does the passage lead you to believe?
A．The library at Alexandria only had a few hundred books.
B．There were many libraries in Egypt at that time.
C．The great library helped to make Alexandria famous.
D．The scholars corrected all the mistakes in the books.
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