作业14  D. The Singing Doctor
Nick Petrella is a doctor in Montreal. He works 60 hours a week. He has to take care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office. He’s been a doctor for ten years.
       Dr. Petrella gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesn’t just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television! Dr. Petrella has his own TV show. The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice. He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language. After that, he sings another song. 
       Dr. Petrella produces and performs in his own show every week. The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing. His dream is to perform（表演） in Las Vegas. His favorite songs are love songs, and he has a small disk of love songs that he wrote. Dr. Petrella says, “I always loved to sing. All my problems are gone when I sing.” But when Dr. Petrella was young, his father didn’t want him to be a singer, so he went to medical school.
       Some people tell Dr. Petrella he can help people more as a doctor. But Dr. Petrella says he helps people when he sings, too. “I like to make people smile. Sometimes it’s difficult to make a sick person smile. Medicine and entertainment（娱乐） both try to do the same thing. They try to make people feel good.” 
1. Dr. Petrella works 60 hours a week, because he ____________________.           
A. gives his patients medical advice    B. takes care of 159 patients a week 
C. sings on television        D. has his own TV show 
2. Dr. Petrella _____________________, so he is called a singing doctor.          
A. has been a doctor for ten years      B. always loved to sing       
C. is popular with his patients           D. also sings to his patients on TV    
3. In his TV show, Dr. Petrella ___________________.        
A. sings and gives medical advice     B. sings about different diseases
C. starts to explain diseases with a song  D. sings love songs he wrote 
4. Dr. Petrella’s show is popular ________________.   
A. in Las Vegas.      B. at medical school  
C. with people who like his singing    D. with patients in Montreal   
5. Dr. Petrella says he likes to __________________.   
A. help people sing   B. make people feel better
C. do the same thing   D. make difficult people smile

E. 66 Days at Sea
A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Bultler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft（救生艇） in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.
       Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Siboney, they met some whales. “They started to hit the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water.” Two minutes later, the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water. 
       For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water – two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw（生的）. Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.”
       About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn’t stand up. So the captain（船长） carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.  
1. Bill and Simone were travelling _____________ when they met some whales.  
A. in a life-raft      B. in Miami C. in Siboney D. in Panama 
2. The whales hit the side of the boat, and then ____________.   
A. they broke the side of the boat B. they brought in a lot of water
C. they pulled the boat     D. they went under the water 
3. After their boat sank , the couple ______________.  
A. jumped into the life-raft B. heard water
C. watched the boat go under water D. stayed in the life-raft 
4. During their days at sea, ___________ saved their lives.   
A. tins of food and bottles of water B. a fishing-line and a machine 
C. whales and sharks D. twenty passing ships 
5. When they saw the fishing boat which later picked them up, ____________.  
A. they were too excited to stand up
B. they couldn’t wait to climb onto the boat
C. their life-raft was beginning to break up
D. they knew their two months at sea would be over 

F
From a plane we can see the fields, cities, mountains or seas below. If we go into space, we see more and more of the earth. People and man-made satellites have been sent out into space to look at the earth carefully and people have learnt more about the earth in the last few years.
       The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. But it can be very terrible when there is a strong wind.
       The sea is very big. It nearly covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. There is one place and at that place the sea is about 11 kilometers deep. The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place, there would be still 2 kilometers of water above it!
       In most parts of the sea, there are many kinds of fishes and plants. Some live near the top of the sea. Others live deep down. There are also a lot of small living things, and lots of fishes live by eating them.
       The sea can be very cold. When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men can go down into the deep sea. But, in 1970, five women scientists (科学家) lived in the deep sea for fourteen days.
1. This passage is_________.
A. a short story    B. for science reading    C. a piece of news  D.a report
2. The sea covers about _______of the earth.
A One third B. One fourth    C. Two quarters   D.Three fourths
3. _______are not mentioned (提及) in this passage.
A. Islands    B. Fishes    C. Plants    D. Living things
4. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The sea is usually beautiful when the sun is shining.
B. The sea is always very terrible when the wind blows hard.
C. The highest mountain is in the deepest place of the sea.
D. The deeper the people go into the sea, the colder they will feel.
5. The last sentence “But, in 1970, five women scientists lived in the deep sea for
    fourteen days.” means that________.
A. women wanted to live in the deep sea for a long time
B. women could go deeper into the sea than men
C. women liked living in the deep sea better than men
D. women could do the same work as men

阅读理解参考答案
D篇  1.B  2.D   3.A   4.C   5.B
E篇  1.C  2.A   3.D   4.B   5.D
F篇  1.B  2.D   3.A   4.C   5.D