四、阅读理解：共15小题;每题3分。共45分。阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
根据以下材料，回答下面试题
Some people do not like anything to be out of place. They are never late for work; they return their books to the library on time; they remember people' s birthdays and they pay their bills as soon as
they arrive. Mr. Brown is such a person. Mr. Brown works in a bank, and lives on his own. His sister lives in the next town with her husband, and her son, Mark. Mr. Brown doesn' t see his sister or her
family from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he hasn' t forgotten one of Mark' s seventeen birthdays. Last week Mr. Brown had quite a surprise. He drove home from the
bank at the usual time; driving neither too slowly nor too fast, he parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal. Just then there
was a knock at the door. Mr. Brown opened the door to find a policeman standing on the doorstep.
"What have I done wrong?" Mr. Brown asked himself. "Have I driven on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an importantt bill?"
"Hello, uncle," said the policeman," My name's Mark. "
第36题单选 Mr. Brown
A. works on his own in a bank
B. lives in a bank and works on his own
C. lives by himself and works in a bank
D. lives with his sister and works by himself
第37题单选 Mr. Brown sees his sister
A. very seldom
B. only at the end of the year
C. only at Christmas
D. on Mark' s birthday every year
第38题单选 "...he hasn' t forgotten one of Mark' s seventeen birthdays" means
A. he has forgotten more than one
B. he sent Mark something on his 17th birthday
C. he always sends a Christmas card on Mark' s birthday
D. he always sends Mark something on his birthday
第39题单选 The policeman was there
A. to meet Mr. Brown, his uncle
B. to ask Mr. Brown to go and see his uncle
C. to ask Mr. Brown to mark his name on his door
D. to see Mr. Brown about some trouble at the bank
根据以下材料，回答下面试题
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in avillage in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was
seventy-five,he gave1200 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children's playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. "I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening, "he told the newspaperman ,thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thou- sands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
第40题单选 The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson_______
A. had no children
B. was a strange man
C. was very fond of children
D. wanted people to know how rich he was
第41题单选 Many people wrote to Johnson to find out_______
A. what kind of whisky he had
B. how to live longer
C. how to become wealthy
D. in which part of the neck to have an injection
第42题单选 The newspaperman
A. should have reported what Johnson had told him
B. shouldn' t have asked Johnson what injection he had
C. was eager to live a long life
D. should have found out what Johnson really meant
第43题单选 When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that_______
A. he drank a glass of whisky in the evening
B. he needed an injection in the neck
C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well
D. there was something wrong with his neck
根据以下材料，回答下面试题
Karen Maclnnes had spent nine months in the hospital. As she grew weaker, the 16-year-old girl asked her parents,"Am I going to die?"
Her mother told Karen the truth. After learning the bad news, all Karen wanted was to go home. Her parents decided to satisfy her wish--no matter that medical fund ,which had helped pay for Karen' s hospitalization, would not cover any of the full time medical care she would need at home. When she was carried through her front door,
Karen smiled for the first time in months.
A friend of the MacInnes family, Sheila Petersen, knew of this and offered .to help. She volun- teered ( 自愿) not only to find nurses, but also to raise money for Karen' s care. Money was received from so many people that Sheila created a fund,"Friends of Karen".
After leaving the hospital, Karen lived for 11 months. "And those months were happy ones for her, "says her mother, "thanks to Sheila. "
Even after Karen died, people kept sending money. Sheila put it into the fund, tried to find someone else who needed help. By last month, Friends of Karen was helping 70 families.
"I still have a relationship with each family," says Sheila. " We hctve four children who are near death now, and I want to be there for them. "Sheila admits (承认) the work is sometimes difficult,but says,"the smile on a child's face makes it all worthwhile(值得的). "
第44题单选 The mother told Karen that she
A. was going to die
B. was going home
C. was growing weak
D. was becoming better
第45题单选 Her parents agreed to take Karen home because
A. thus they would save money
B. medical funds wouldn' t cover any of the full time medical care
C. they couldn' t pay for her hospitalization
D. they hoped to make her satisfied
第46题单选 Sheila helped Karen' s parents by
A. giving them money
B. raising money from others
C. finding nurses for them
D. paying for Karen' s hospitalization
第47题单选 Karen lived for_______since she had got out of the hospital.
A. eleven months
B. nine months
C. twenty months
D. twelve months
成考试题：2016成考高起点英语考前30天冲刺试题 历年真题及答案
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