Ｂ）阅读理解（共１０小题,计２０分）阅读下面的短文，并做每篇后面的题目。从各题所给的四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

(A)

Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people moved from place to place, hunting(捕猎)animals for food.

No one knows how and where these people learned to grew food. But when they did, their lives changed. They began to live near each another. And so the first villages grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big.

When machines came along(出现), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew big.

( ) 51. Before villages began, people _______.

A.　　 hunted animals for food　 B. stayed in one place

C.　　 always grew food to eat　 D. lived together

( ) 52. People didn’t have to move from one place to another after ______.

A.　　 factories were built　　　

B.　　 machines came along

C.　　 they learned to hunt animals

D.　　 they knew how to grow food

(B)

Mary is going to have a party for her brother. She wants Ann to help her at the party. Here is Mary’s letter to Ann:

Dear Ann,

I am going to have a party for my brother at home this Sunday from 7 to 9 in the evening. Would you like to come and help me at the party? I hope you can come.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 With best wishes,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Mary

This is Ann’s answer:

Dear Mary,

Thank you very much for asking me to your party this Sunday. I shall be very happy to come.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 With best wishes,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　Ann

( ) 53. The party is for ________.

A. Ann　　 B. Mary　　　 C. Mary’s brother　　　 D. Ann’s brother

( ) 54. The party will last ______.

A. two hours　　　　　　 B. two days

C. seven days　　　　　　 D. nine hours

( ) 55. Mary asks Ann to come and ______ at the party.

A.　　 tell a story　　　　　 B. have a talk

C. sing a song　　　　　　 D. do something for her

(C)

I have always been interested in making things. When I was a child, I enjoyed drawing, but I also liked making things out of clay(粘土). I won a prize(奖) for one of my paintings when I was fourteen. That may be why I went to art(美术) school four years later. But I studied painting at first, not pottery(制陶). I like being a potter because I like to work with my hands and feel the clay. I’m happy working by myself and being near my home. I don’t like mass-produced(集体生产)things, because they are made by machines and all the same. I think crafts(手工艺) are very important and crafts-people make things cleverly with hands. They make our lives colourful. When I left school, I got some money. I hope to become a full-time(专职的)crafts-woman. This work-place is small, but I wish to move to a larger one next year.

( ) 56. From the passage(段落) we are sure that the writer is a _______.