another country, in another life you might be on your own，” Hartman said. “If I were in a bad situation and were driven away like flies from milk, then what kind of family would that be？”

In America, a lot of parents say the last thing they want is to be a burden (负担) on their children. Also, a lot of kids don't want to be burdened by their parents. It is too bad that we can't all see like the blind man.

【文章大意】作者去印度一个四世同堂的大家庭做客，在那里知道了什么叫其乐融融。

1．Who is the oldest family member in Khushi Ram's family?

A. Khushi Ram.

B. Kassmiri.

C. Avtar.

D. Hartman.

解析：D细节理解题。根据第四段的“I also notice that there always seems to be someone watching the grand-grandpa, Khushi Ram's blind father Hartman”可知Hartman 是这个家庭里年纪最长的。

2．In Paragraph 2 the writer wants to tell us that ________.

A. Khushi Ram has to work very hard

B. the family are happy to live together

C. Kassmiri likes showing off her family

D. the family live a very poor life together

解析：B作者意图题。作者在第二段主要强调了这个家庭的幸福，故选B。

3．When the writer knew the family had only one bank account, how did he most probably feel?

A. Worried.

B. Excited.

C. Surprised.

D. Sad.

解析：C推理判断题。根据第三段的“I am impressed with how well the family members get on with each other. You may not believe it”可推断作者听说他们一家只用一个银行账户时，应该感到很惊讶。

4．We can infer from the passage that Hartman ________.

A. can take good care of himself

B. isn't satisfied with what he has

C. feels sorry that he is a burden on his family

D. feels lucky to live in such a family

解析：D推理判断题。根据第四段的“In another country, in another life you might be on your own，”Hartman said. “If I were in a bad situation and were driven away like flies from milk, then what kind of family would that be？”可知Hartman 通过这种假设来体现出他生活在这样的一个家庭里是多么的幸运。

B

The Internet has both advantages and disadvantages.

Communication

Now we can communicate with a person who is sitting in another part of the world almost for free. There are plenty of online messenger services that offer this service. With the help of such service, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts and explore other cultures.

Information

Access to information is one of the biggest advantages of the Internet. Almost

any kind of information on any topic under the sun can be found on the Internet. Search engines like Google or Yahoo are at your service on the Internet. You can find almost any type of data on almost any kind of subject.

Entertainment

Entertainment is another popular reason why many people like to surf the Internet. There are numerous games that may be downloaded from the Internet for free. Chat rooms are popular because users can meet new and interesting people. When people surf the Web, they can find numerous things. Music, hobbies, news and more can be found and shared on the Internet.

Service

Much service is now provided on the Internet such as online banking, job seeking, purchasing tickets for your favorite movies, and hotel reservations.

But there are also disadvantages. If you use the Internet, your personal information such as name, address, credit card number, etc. might be accessed by other people. Virus (病毒) threat is another problem. Virus attacks can end up crashing your whole hard disk, causing you much headache. Pornography is perhaps the biggest threat related to children's healthy mental life. There are thousands of porno-graphic sites on the Internet that can be easily found.

On the whole, the Internet's advantages overweigh its disadvantages.

【文章大意】本文向我们介绍了因特网的一些优点和缺点。

5．What is this passage mainly about?

A. Do's and don'ts on the Internet.

B. Service offered on the Internet.

C. Information offered on the Internet.

D. Advantages and disadvantages of the Internet.

解析：D主旨大意题。通读全文，可知作者主要是讲因特网的优点和缺点，故选D。

6．According to the writer, with the Internet, we can ________.

A. make friends with people from other countries conveniently

B. find any type of data on any kind of subject

C. buy very cheap things online from other countries

D. download whatever we want for free

解析：A细节理解题。根据第二段的“With the help of such service, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship”可知有了因特网，与别的国家的人交朋友就变得很方便了。

7．The writer seems to believe that ________.

A. the Internet isn't very useful to children

B. the Internet is safer to use than people think

C. people don't know how to make use of the Internet

D. the Internet has more advantages than disadvantages

解析：D作者观点题。根据末段的“On the whole, the Internet's advantages overweigh its disadvantages.”可知作者认为因特网的优点多过缺点。

8．What's the structure of the passage?

解析：B文章结构题。本文的第一段提出话题，第二段至第五段都在讲因特网的优点，为一个段群，第六段是讲因特网的缺点的，与前面的优点并列，第七段是总结语，故选B。

Ⅴ.七选五阅读

There is an English saying: “__1__”Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. __2__.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. __3__. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated (忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. __4__.

__5__. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A. Laughter can prolong one's life.

B. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their patients' condition by encouraging them to laugh.

C. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain.

D. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.

E. Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still can not put this theory into clinic practice.

F. Laughter is the best medicine.

G. They have found that laughter really can improve people's health.

答案：1.F 2.G 3.D 4.C 5.B